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]

Gallery

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  Orpheus and Eurydice, c. 1950, Colorado Springs, Colorado
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  Petroleum Industry - Production, mural, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., 1939
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  Petroleum Industry - Distribution & Use, mural, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., 1939
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  Art Deco frescoes by Britton at front entrance of Bloom High School, Chicago Heights, Illinois, 1935

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