Colorado, Kansas, Missouri. 1897 - 1968
Modernist-leaning landscape, abstract expression
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1901 Kearney, Nebraska - 1982 Denver, Colorado. Known for: Mural and landscape painting, sculpture.
Known primarily for his murals, Edgar Britton was also a painter in oil and watercolor and a sculptor in bronze. His work, with "simplified, weighty forms", (Kennedy 95) was obviously influenced by... Read full biography
Known primarily for his murals, Edgar Britton was also a painter in oil and watercolor and a sculptor in bronze. His work, with "simplified, weighty forms", (Kennedy 95) was obviously influenced by the social-realist style of the Mexican muralists including Diego Rivera, Jose Orozco, and David... Read full biography
Known primarily for his murals, Edgar Britton was also a painter in oil and watercolor and a sculptor in bronze. His work, with "simplified, weighty forms", (Kennedy 95) was obviously influenced by the social-realist style of the Mexican muralists including Diego Rivera, Jose Orozco, and David Siqueiros. Britton was born in Kearney, Nebraska and studied at the University of Iowa and with Grand Wood from 1920 to 1924. His reputation was established during the Depression years when he did... Read full biography
Known primarily for his murals, Edgar Britton was also a painter in oil and watercolor and a sculptor in bronze. His work, with "simplified, weighty forms", (Kennedy 95) was obviously influenced by the social-realist style of the Mexican muralists including Diego Rivera, Jose Orozco, and David Siqueiros. Britton was born in Kearney, Nebraska and studied at the University of Iowa and with Grand Wood from 1920 to 1924. His reputation was established during the Depression years when he did numerous paintings and murals for the Federal Art Project including serving as Director from 1940 to 1941 of the mural division of the Illinois Art Project. His fresco work, completed for the Works Progress Administration, is in the Waterloo, Iowa Post... Read full biography
Known primarily for his murals, Edgar Britton was also a painter in oil and watercolor and a sculptor in bronze. His work, with "simplified, weighty forms", (Kennedy 95) was obviously influenced by the social-realist style of the Mexican muralists including Diego Rivera, Jose Orozco, and David Siqueiros. Britton was born in Kearney, Nebraska and studied at the University of Iowa and with Grand Wood from 1920 to 1924. His reputation was established during the Depression years when he did numerous paintings and murals for the Federal Art Project including serving as Director from 1940 to 1941 of the mural division of the Illinois Art Project. His fresco work, completed for the Works Progress Administration, is in the Waterloo, Iowa Post Office; and Chicago Heights, Illinois at Bloom High School. On June 3, 1982, it was named the first high school... Read full biography
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Colorado, Missouri. 1902 - 1978
Post-office murals, teaching, ghost town book illustrations
Colorado, Louisiana. 1891 - 1978
Mural and landscape painting, ceramic, educator
New Jersey, Colorado / Italy. 1913 - 1992
Genre, illustrator, abstract painting
Colorado, Michigan. 1926 - 2005
Landscape painting-mountains, murals
New York, Colorado / France, Holland. 1882 - 1945
Figure, genre and landscape painting, mural
Colorado / Bermuda. 1901 - 1980
Figure, genre-crowds, animal easel and mural painting
Colorado, California. 1868 - 1954
Still life, landscape paintings
Colorado, Arizona / England. 1860 - 1932
Landscape and trompe l'oeil still-life painting
Colorado, New York. 1916 - 1993
Abstract landscape and regionalist mural painting
Colorado. 1893 - 1992
Mining, western scene, landscape and still-life painting
United States. 1919 - 2007
Painting
Colorado. 1917 - 1950
Mod figure, genre, sculptor
Colorado, Nebraska. 1892 - 1967
Mountain landscape, portrait, still-life
Colorado. 1918 - 1999
Abstract painting, drawing, print making, sculpture, art education
Colorado, New York. 1880 - 1955
Painting, teaching, interior decorating
Georgia. 1921 - 2005
Figure, genre, mural, video artist
Colorado, Missouri. 1893 - c.1977
Mining town-landscapes, still life painting
New York, California, Colorado, Nova Scotia / Canada. 1876 - 1952
Genre, landscape, and figure easel and mural painting, teaching
New York, Ohio. 1915 - 1984
Mod figure-non ob images, posters
Colorado, Iowa. 1899 - 1989
Modernist landscape, genre and figure painting, graphics
Ohio, Colorado. 1904 - 1998
Figure, genre and landscape painting
California, Colorado, Texas, Kansas. 1909 - 1987
American scene painting, automobiles, portraits and nudes
Colorado, Utah, Ohio. 1853 - 1934
Itinerant painter-mountains, Indian life, western
Colorado / Poland. 1923 - 2002
Land-cityscape, architecture
Kansas, Connecticut / Belgium. 1905 - 1990
Abstract expression
New York, Colorado / Latvia. 1905 - 1990
Landscape, architecture, genre, educator
Colorado, Kansas. 1909 - 1978
Painting
Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona. 1891 - 1958
Frontier-Indian genre and landscape painting
Colorado, Illinois. 1884 - 1967
Plein aire mountain landscape watercolor painting, floral still life
New Mexico, Colorado, Minnesota. 1893 - 1963
Indian genre and mural painting, printmaking
Colorado. 1937 - 2008
Landscape painting