James Britton Original Illustration of Odd Fellows ULTRA RARE EARLY WORK

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James Britton Original Illustration of Odd Fellows ULTRA RARE EARLY WORK:
$2300.00

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Item is Hand drawn on heavy bond stock, not a copy. Used in the Hartford Times Jan 12th1898 Issue. Artist is well listed! Very early work!

James Britton was a Connecticut artist. Born on Charter Oak Avenue in Hartford on February 20, 1878, Britton received his first training as an artist in the Hartford studio of Charles Noel Flagg (1848-1916). He briefly moved to New York City in 1895 where he studied at the Art Students\' League and worked at Scribner\'s Magazine, however, within the year he found himself back home in Hartford. He wrote in his autobiography:

When I saw the tall wooden partitions [at the Connecticut League of Artists], the brilliant arc lamps burning, and the students bending over their drawing boards in the antique room and standing at their easels in the life class, everything I had seen of art classes in New York -- the National Academy and George DeForest Brush\'s class in the Art Students\' League -- seemed pretty small. I went back to the big city feeling sorry for it that little Hartford could surpass it in this particular.

Britton spent this early period in his career living in Hartford and, later, in Farmington. He was very active in the art circles in the greater Hartford area: he worked as a staff artist for the Hartford Times in 1898. In 1910, while working as the art critic for the Hartford Courant Britton, along with Connecticut artists Henry C. White (1861-1952) Robert Brandegee (1848-1922), Charles Noel Flagg, among others, founded the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts.

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