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]

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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