Edgar Britton

Edgar Britton (1901-1982) was an American painter, muralist and sculptor born in Kearney, Nebraska. He moved to Chicago where he studied and worked with Edgar Miller. There he began painting murals, many as WPA projects.[1]

Britton's mural Petroleum Industry: Distribution & Use, on display at the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C.

For reasons of his health he relocated to Colorado in the early 1940s where he taught at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center until 1951.[2]

  • Orpheus and Eurydice, c. 1950, Colorado Springs, Colorado
    Orpheus and Eurydice, c. 1950, Colorado Springs, Colorado
  • Petroleum Industry - Production, mural, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., 1939
    Petroleum Industry - Production, mural, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., 1939
  • Petroleum Industry - Distribution & Use, mural, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., 1939
    Petroleum Industry - Distribution & Use, mural, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., 1939
  • Art Deco frescoes by Britton at front entrance of Bloom High School, Chicago Heights, Illinois, 1935
    Art Deco frescoes by Britton at front entrance of Bloom High School, Chicago Heights, Illinois, 1935

References
  1. Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986
  2. "Edgar Britton | Artists | Modernism in the New City: Chicago Artists, 1920-1950". www.chicagomodern.org. Archived from the original on 2014-10-10.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.