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Edgar Britton

American, 1901–1982

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New Horizons in American Art

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1936

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Edgar Britton was an American painter and muralist whose work emerged from the American regionalist movement of the 1930s. Born in Nebraska and trained under Grant Wood at the University of Iowa, he developed a practice rooted in public mural commissions, many executed through New Deal WPA programs while based in Chicago. His paintings and murals synthesized Wood's figurative approach with the social realist concerns of the Depression era. Britton's work was included in MoMA's 'New Horizons in American Art' in 1936, a landmark survey of American modernism.

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Artworks (4)

Woman Feeding Pigeons, Grant Park

1941 · Gouache with watercolor on off-white watercolor paper

31.8 × 58.2 cm (12 9/16 × 22 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Discovery, Use and Conservation of Natural Resources (Carl Sandberg and Frank Lloyd Wright), (Study for mural, Decatur, Illinois post office)

1938

Mother and Child

1935 · Lithograph on off-white paper

Image: 32.7 × 22.7 cm (12 7/8 × 8 15/16 in.); Sheet: 40.4 × 29 cm (15 15/16 × 11 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Eve

1933 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

Image: 32.1 × 22.4 cm (12 11/16 × 8 7/8 in.); Sheet: 40.9 × 28.5 cm (16 1/8 × 11 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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The Discovery, Use and Conservation of Natural Resources (Carl Sandberg and Frank Lloyd Wright), (Study for mural, Decatur, Illinois post office)
1938 · Wikidata · 3 prov
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The Discovery, Use and Conservation of Natural Resources (Carl Sandberg and Frank Lloyd Wright), (Study for mural, Decatur, Illinois post office) SAAM 1974.28.304 1

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Edgar Britton, Orpheus and Eurydice, 1950 (?)

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Art Institute of Chicago

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University of Iowa

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Group Exhibition New Horizons in American Art

New York · 1936