James Britton | Kiesendahl + Calhoun Contemporary Art

Artist: James Britton

Images


James Britton, "The Coal Picker" 13 x 17 1/4 oil on canvas 1902	Britton, "Cloud Rolls, Mattatuck Hill," Waterbury 5 x 8 oil/board 1926	Britton, "Goose House" North Manchester, 5 3/4 x 7 1/4 oil/board 1934

Britton, "Madison, Conn." 8 2/5 x 11 oil/board August 1933	Britton, "Yellow, Pink and Blue", Sag Harbor, 3 5/8 x 10 oil/board 1925	Britton, "3rd of August" (Sumac, North Manchester) 9 x 9 oil/board, 1935

Britton, "Brass Corner" Sumac, North Manchester, 8 x 8 oil/board 1935	Britton, Evergreens, North Manchester 10 x 8, oil/board 1934	Britton, "Camel Cloud II" Sag Harbor, 8 x 10 oil/board 1925

Britton, "Ball Cloud, Sag Harbor" 10 3/4 x 8, oil/board 1925

Artist Statement

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Camilla Calhoun 914 332 4842 camillac@optonline.net

STRIKING ACCORD: James Britton (1878-1936) and Kate McGloughlin (1962- )
TWO PAINTERS, TWO CENTURIES, SHARE AFFINITY
Kiesendahl+Calhoun exhibit begins April 14th to May 28 at the

Artist Resume / Curriculum Vitae

James Britton - (1878 - 1936) American Painter,
1895 apprenticed as illustrator at Scibner's Magazine and studied painting with George de Forest Brush at Art Students' League, New York City
1896 Returned to Hartford, studied with Charles Noel Flagg at Conn. League of Art Students.
1907 Active in summer art colony, Gloucester, MAss.
1910 Co Founded Connecticut Academy of Fine Art , Hartford
1913 - 1919 Reviewed Armory Show for American Art News and wrote art criticism for American Art News.
1914 Married Caroline Korner of Waterbury, Connecticut
1915 - 1916 Moved to Greenwich Village with wife and son James is born.
1915 Organized the first Eclectics exhibition, including Guy Pene du Bois, Walter Griffin, Philip Hale, George Luks, Maurice Prendergast, Jane Peterson and others
1918 Exhibited in M. Knoedler & Co. Galleries, with Bellows, Glackens, Childe Hassam, John Sloan and others)
1918-22 continued to exhibit in NYC, including the first expressionists exhibition at Babcock Galleries.
1922 Moved to Sag Harbor, LI.
1924 Solo exhibit at Ainslie Galleries NYC
1925 - 26 First and second exhibitions of the New Society of American Artists, M. Knoedler & Co. Galleries, NYC
1928 Struck by automobile in Hartford, permanently disabled.
1929 Joint exhibition in Gloucester, Mass.
1930 Portrait of William Gedney Bunce pruchased by
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, solo exhibit there.
April 16th, 1936 died in Hartford.
Various posthumous exhibits in New York City, California, Sag Harbor, LI, Britton's work is being promoted under the auspices of his granddaughters Barbara and Ursula Britton.

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