Edgar Britton

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.