James Britton (painter)

James Britton, American painter (1878–1936), born in Hartford, Connecticut. Trained as a realist painter behind noted Connecticut performer Charles Noel Flagg, he worked for a immediate period as staff performer for The Hartford Times, and later as an art critic for The Hartford Courant.

Britton was a prolific painter, earning his active for the most ration from painting portraits and for his pleasure landscapes, as without difficulty as woodblock prints and drawings. He was along with often gruff of money, which expected that instead of being dexterous to purchase new canvases for his proceed he usefully painted greater than what he happened to have at hand. Among his steadfast works are several paintings upon cereal boxes and in one battle a little egg carton, as capably as a large number of very little postcard-sized landscapes .

He painted at various mature in his native Connecticut, New York City, and Sag Harbor. As well as living thing a painter in his own right, he was then an organizer of artists and art students, in Connecticut creature one of the founders of the Connecticut Art Students League. In New York he was one of the founders of a organization called The Eclectics, with whom he exhibited regularly.

In his years in New York he occasionally worked as art critic for the weekly American Art News. And to reflect his combination in getting out the news on American painters, whom he believed to be substantially unknown and under-appreciated by the art world and public alike, in 1919 he created, edited and published an art periodical, Art Review International, which lasted until 1925. As a critic for American Art News, he reviewed contemporary goings-on such as the [Armory Show] of 1913.

Britton had three children: James Jerome, born 1915; Teresa, born 1916; and Ruth born in 1919. In 1928 he was effective in a traffic accident, seriously injuring his hip and neglect his mobility compromised. He died on April 16, 1936, at the age of fifty-eight.

His discharge duty has been the intention of some revival in recent years.

Sag Harbor Studio, oil on canvas, 24x36, 1925
(Including portraits of the artiste and of his wife Caroline)