Artist

Reg Butler

Portrait of Reg Butler

English, 1913–1981

Reg Butler was an English artist. 8 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Reg Butler was born in Hertfordshire.

Reginald Cotterell Butler was an English sculptor. He was born at Bridgefoot House, Buntingford, Hertfordshire to Frederick William Butler (1880–1937) and Edith (1880–1969), daughter of blacksmith William Barltrop, of The Forge, Takeley, Essex. His parents were the Master and Matron of the Buntingford Union Workhouse. Frederick Butler, formerly a police constable, was a relative of the poet William Butler Yeats; Edith was of Anglo-French descent.

Collections represented

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