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

Edgar Britton (1901-1982) was an American painter, muralist and sculptor born in Kearney, Nebraska. He studied with Grant Wood at the University of Iowa, and he moved to Chicago where he studied and worked with Edgar Miller. There he began painting murals, many as WPA projects.