Edgar Britton

Edgar Britton (1901 - 1982) 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]

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]

References

  1. ↑ Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986
  2. ↑ http://www.chicagomodern.org/artists/edgar_britton
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