Background
Norton was born in Lockport, Illinois, the son of John Lyman Norton and Ada Clara Gooding Norton.
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Before, and after a period of living as a cowboy and enlisting with the Rough Riders, he studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago (1897, 1899–1901). He would later teach there.
Career
The family ran the Norton & Company of Lockport. Norton"s study of law at Harvard University was broken off when the family"s firm went bankrupt. He was influenced by the Armory Show and the Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai.
Among his works are the landmark 1929 180-foot (55 m) long ceiling mural for the concourse of the Chicago Daily News Building (not currently installed in this building, which has been renamed).
The Ceres mural in the Chicago Board of Trade Building (1930). Two large murals, "Old South" and "New South" commissioned by Holabird & Root for the Jefferson County Courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama.
His Tavern Club (Chicago) murals. His American Heritage Series at the Hamilton Park Field House, 513 West. 72nd Saint, Chicago.
Four murals at the Saint Paul, Minnesota city hall.
Twelve murals comprising The History of Mankind (1923) at the Logan Museum of Anthropology at Beloit College, in Wisconsin. And his first major mural in the Cliff Dwellers Club (1909), where he was a founding member. At the time of his death in Charleston, South Carolina of cancer, he was a popular and respected artist.
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United States