Edward Landon

Edward Landon was an American painter and printmaker, born in Hartford, Connecticut. He studied at the Hartford Art School before moving to New York City, where he took up study at the Art Students League. At the onset of the Great Depression, Landon moved back to Hartford, where he befriended art critic and historian Elisabeth McCausland. The relationship led to his introduction to numerous contemporary artists of the day, including Georgia O'Keeffe and Paul Strand, whom he summered with one year in Taos, New Mexico.

Landon is particularly well known for his abstract serigraphs. His discovery of the medium in the 1930s led to him becoming one of its premier practitioners through the 1950s. In all, Landon produced more than 750 prints during his lifetime, but not all of them used serigraphy. 

His work can be found in institutions across the U.S. and Europe. Some of those include: The Library of Congress, D.C.; Smithsonian Institution, D.C.; Whitney Museum of American Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; British Museum, London; Bibliotheque National, Paris; Tel Aviv Museum, Israel; and Turku Museum, Finland.