About Edgar Britton
Lived 1901 – 1982 (aged 80–81). Edgar Britton was an American painter and sculptor.
Britton's mural Petroleum Industry: Distribution & Use, on display at the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. Edgar Britton (1901-1982) was an American painter, muralist and sculptor born in Kearney, Nebraska. He studied with Grant Wood at the University of Iowa, and he moved to Chicago where he studied and worked with Edgar Miller. There he began painting murals, many as WPA projects.
For reasons of his health (he was diagnosed with tuberculosis), Britton relocated to Colorado in the early 1940s where he taught at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center until 1951.
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Who was Edgar Britton?
American painter (1901–1982)
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Edgar Britton was born on 15 April 1901 in Kearney.
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Edgar Britton died in 1982 in Denver.
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Edgar Britton was a painter and sculptor.
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Edgar Britton was American.
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