JAMES BRITTON CHRONOLOGY AND EXHIBITION HISTORY
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February 20, 1878
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Born in Hartford,
Connecticut
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1895
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Moved to New York City to
apprentice as illustrator at Scribner's Magazine, under August Jacacci;
studied painting with George de Forest Brush at Art Students' League, New York City
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1896
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Returned to Hartford,
studied first with Charles Noel Flagg at Connecticut League of Art Students,
later with Walter Griffin and Robert Brandegee
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c. 1907
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Active in summer art colony at Gloucester, Massachusetts,
to which he returned many summers thereafter
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1910
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Co-founded Connecticut
Academy of Fine Art, Hartford
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March 1913
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Reviewed the landmark Armory Show for American Art News, New York City
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1913-1919
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Wrote art criticism for American Art News
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1914
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Married Caroline Korner of Waterbury, Connecticut
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1915
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Moved to New York's Greenwich Village; birth of son, James Jerome
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1915
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Organized The Eclectics, an exhibiting group of painters
and sculptors that at various times included Theresa Bernstein, Guy Pene du
Bois, Walter Griffin, Philip L. Hale, Eugene Higgins, George Luks, Jane
Peterson, Maurice Prendergast, Mahonri Young, and others
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1915-16
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First Eclectics exhibition, Folsom Galleries, New York City
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1916
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Exhibition of oils and charcoal sketches at the New York City studios
of sculptor Marie Apel; birth of daughter, Teresa Lenore
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1917
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Second Eclectics exhibition, Arlington
Galleries, New York City; the
exhibition subsequently traveled to Vose Galleries in Boston
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1918
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Exhibited in "American Paintings and Sculpture
Pertaining to the War," M. Knoedler & Co. Galleries, New York City (with
George Bellows, William Glackens, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, John Sloan,
others)
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February 1918
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Third Eclectics exhibition, Folsom Galleries, New York City
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c. 1918
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Exhibited in New York with members of the Painter-Gravers
Club, which included T. Bernstein, W. Glackens, C. Hassam, Rockwell Kent, J.
Sloan, J. Alden Weir, others
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December 1918
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Fourth Eclectics exhibition, Babcock Galleries, New York
City
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1919
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First Expressionists exhibition, Babcock Galleries (with W. Griffin, P. Hale, M. Prendergast, others)
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1919
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Fifth Eclectics exhibition, Babcock Galleries; birth of
daughter, Ruth Lily
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1919-25
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Published Artists of America: A History, Part 1, and
art periodicals, Art Review International, Opus
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1921
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Sixth Eclectics exhibition, Babcock Galleries; woodcuts
included in New York Public Library exhibition of prints, curated by Frank
Weitenkampf
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1922
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Moved to Sag Harbor, Long Island; seventh Eclectics
exhibition, Dudensing Galleries,
New York City
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1923
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Eighth Eclectics exhibition, Babcock Galleries
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1924
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Solo exhibition, Ainslie
Galleries, New York
City
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1924
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Group exhibition, Henry Ward Beecher Memorial Gallery of
Plymouth Institute, Brooklyn,
NY
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1925
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First exhibition of the New Society of American Artists,
M. Knoedler & Co. Galleries, New York City
(with William Donohue, E. Higgins, Ernest Lawson, Robert Vonnoh, others);
moved to Waterbury, CT
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1926
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Second exhibition of the New Society of American Artists,
M. Knoedler & Co. Galleries (with W. Donohue, E. Higgins, Hayley Lever,
Jerome Myers, Morris Hall Pancoast, R. Vonnoh, others)
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1928
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Struck by automobile while crossing street in Hartford; left
permanently disabled
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1929
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Joint exhibition, James Britton and Maud Nottingham
Monnier, Gloucester, Massachusetts
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1930
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Britton's portrait of William Gedney Bunce purchased by
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; solo exhibition,
Hartford Women's Club; moved to Manchester,
CT
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April 16, 1936
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Died in Hartford
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POSTHUMOUS EXHIBITIONS
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1936
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James Britton Memorial Exhibition, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
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1937
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Represented in Connecticut
Academy of Fine Art Annual
Exhibition, Morgan Memorial at the Wadsworth
Atheneum
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1951
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Represented in "45 Portraits,"
Wadsworth Atheneum (with Bellows, Cassatt, Flagg, Henri, Modigliani,
Prendergast, Rembrandt, others)
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1982
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Represented in "American Paintings of the 1920s and
1930s," Saint Joseph College, West Hartford
(with Avery, Benton, O'Keeffe, others)
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1990
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Represented in "Highlights from the Reverend
Andrew J. Kelly Collection,” Saint
Joseph College
(with Avery, Hassam, O'Keeffe, Weber, others)
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1990-91
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Britton's portrait of Theresa Bernstein included in
"Echoes of New York: The Paintings of Theresa Bernstein," Museum of
the City of New York
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1994
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Represented in "Portraits in Art: Paintings
and Prints from the Saint Joseph College Art Collections," Saint Joseph College (with Bellows, Hassam,
Hockney, Rembrandt, others)
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1997
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"James Britton: American Paintings 1907-1934,"
Gallery 2, Ventura College, Ventura,
California
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1998
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"James Britton: Paintings and
Woodcuts," Saint Joseph
College
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1999
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“James Britton: Painter/Printmaker,” Leeds-Wallace Gallery, Ventura
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1999
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“Sag Harbor Skies: 1925 . . . 1975," James
Britton and N.H. Stubbing, Nabi Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
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2000
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“James Britton: Landscapes, Portraits and
Prints,” Nabi Gallery
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2000
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Represented in “A Director’s Choice,” Saint Joseph College
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2001
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“Time Recaptured,” James Britton and John Button,
Nabi Gallery
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2001
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“James Britton: Sag Harbor in the 1920s,” Ventura County
Maritime Museum, Channel Islands
Harbor, California
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2004
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“James Britton
and Kathy Buist,” Nabi Gallery,
New York City
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2005
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“James
Britton: Connecticut Artist,” Lyman Allyn Art Museum,
New
London, CT
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2006
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“James Britton: Portraits and Landscapes,” Nabi Gallery
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2007
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“Striking
Accord: James Britton and Kate McGloughlin,”
Kiesendahl + Calhoun Fine Art, Beacon, New York
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2007
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“James Britton:
Landscapes and Portraits,” Nabi Gallery
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2008
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Represented in “Art for Obama,” Nabi Gallery
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2010
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“James Britton: Landscapes and Woodcuts,” Nabi Gallery
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2011
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Represented in “Inspiration and Impact: The Legacy of the Hartford Steam Boiler Collection,” Florence
Griswold Museum,
Old Lyme, CT
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2012
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Represented in “Founded in Friendship: The Legacy
of the Andrew J. Kelly Collection,” Saint Joseph College
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2013
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Represented in “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: An
Artist’s Guide to the World,” Florence
Griswold Museum,
Old Lyme
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2013
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“James Britton in Sag Harbor, 1920s,” Canio’s
Gallery, Sag Harbor
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