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Edgar Britton

b. 1901, Kearney, Nebraska - d. 1982, Denver, Colorado
Edgar Britton was born in 1901 in Kearney, Nebraska. He studied at the University of Iowa before moving to Cedar Rapids, where he studied painting and drawing under regionalist painter Grant Wood. In Chicago, Britton worked with Edgar Miller for several years, using diverse mediums for his designs. Throughout the mid-to-late 1930s, Britton created numerous frescoes in Chicago-area high schools for the Public Works of Art Project.
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Edgar Britton
Date: 1965
Medium: bronze
Mother and Child
Mother and Child
Edgar Britton
Date: ca.1935
Shacks
Shacks
Edgar Britton
Date: 1938
Medium: oil on canvas
Study for Early Man, from Epochs in the History of Mankind
Study for Early Man, from Epochs in the History of Mankind
Edgar Britton
Date: 1935-1942
Medium: tempera on masonite
Study for Epochs in the History of Mankind
Study for Epochs in the History of Mankind
Edgar Britton
Date: 1935-1942
Medium: tempera on masonite
Work of the Petroleum Division of the Bureau of Mines
Work of the Petroleum Division of the Bureau of Mines
Edgar Britton
Date: 1939
Medium: fresco
Building and Building
Edgar Britton
Date: 1934
Medium: tempera on masonite
Cartoon for Fresco, Lane Technical High School
Edgar Britton
Date: 1935-1942
Medium: cartoon
Holiday
Edgar Britton
Date: c.1935
Medieval Monk
Edgar Britton
Date: 1937
Mother and Child
Edgar Britton
Date: c.1935
Mother and Child
Edgar Britton
Date: c.1935
Mother and Child
Edgar Britton
Date: ca.1935
Mother and Child
Edgar Britton
Date: ca.1935
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