Nationality American Died February 18, 1992 Name Edith Hamlin | Movement Social realism Known for Painting, murals Period Social realism | |
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Born June 23, 1902 Oakland, California Alma mater California School of Fine Arts, Columbia University Spouse(s) Maynard Dixon (1937–1946), Albert Barrows (1933–1936) Education Columbia University, San Francisco Art Institute | ||
Edith Ann Hamlin (1902-1992) was an American landscape and portrait painter and muralist. She is known for her social realism murals created while working with the Public Works of Art Project, Federal Art Project and the Section of Painting and Sculpture during the Great Depression era in the United States and for her decorative style paintings of the American desert.
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Born in Oakland, California, as a small child she was exposed to art by her father who took her on sketching trips. Hamlin attended the California School of Fine Arts and the Teachers College at Columbia University.
She maintained a studio in San Diego throughout the 1920s. In 1933, Hamlin was briefly married to artist Albert Barrows. By 1936 they divorced.
During the early 1930s, she traveled around New Mexico and Arizona. She was selected to paint murals for the Public Works of Art Project at the Coit Tower, and completed a WPA Federal Art Project mural for Mission High School in San Francisco. On the second floor of Coit Tower, she completed a mural named "Sports and Hunting in California". It currently has limited public access due to its location.
She also painted for the Department of the Interior Building in Washington, DC.
Hamlin's second marriage was to Maynard Dixon in 1937. They met while working for the WPA on the Mission High School mural. Together they moved to Tucson in 1939 and maintained a summer home in Mt. Carmel, Utah. In Tucson, she completed numerous public murals and projects. After Dixon died in 1946, Hamlin returned to San Francisco, where she died in 1992.