Wisconsin/California artist, watercolor of the Golden Gate Bridge & Ft. Point. San Francisco 1978. Signed lower left. Gallery label verso. Sight size: 20 3/4 x 28 3/4 in. Overall size: 28 1/4 x 36 1/2 in.Born in Wisconsin in 1938, Charlotte Britton grew up in Northern California. She studied watercolor at San Jose State with N Eric Oback and received her BA in 1959. Primarily a landscape painter, she worked mostly on location in her early years and started The SantaClara Valley Watercolor Society in the late 1960's. She began teaching watercolor classes in 1973, continuing also to study in workshops with Rex Brandt, Robert E. Wood, George Post, Millard Sheets and others.Britton exhibited with many art groups in Californiaand the US and received more than 50 awards for painting including from American Watercolor Society in 1995 and 1997 and National Watercolor in 1996. She is a signature member of both AWS and NWS and of California Watercolor Association. She continued teaching to 2005 and also led painting workshops to locations in the US and Europe starting in 1984. Ten of the workshops were at LaRomita School of Art located in the Umbrian province of Italy.