biography of Cecil C. BRIGGS (1904-?)

Birth place: Waukee, IA

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Architect and sketcher

Studied: Cumming School of Art; Simpson College, 1925; Columbia School of Arch.; Am. Acad. of Rome, Italy.

Exhibited: Soc. of Beaux Arts, Paris 1927-28 (medals); Alumni Assoc. (gold medal); Lydia Roberts fell., 1925; Prix de Rome for Arch., 1928; awarded fel., Guggenheim Found., 1931 but declined.

Comments: Position: head of drawing dept., School of Arch. Columbia Univ., NYC, 1931.

Sources: Ness & Orwig, Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years, 35-36.