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Edith Anne Hamlin

Edith Anne Hamlin (1902 - 1992) was active/lived in California, Arizona.  Edith Hamlin is known for Desert landscape and portrait painting, murals.

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Born in Oakland, California, Edith Hamlin grew up there and in Santa Cruz, and became a painter of Western landscape, murals, and occasionally portraits.

As a child, she accompanied her father, Charles Hamlin, on sketching trips in the Santa Cruz region.  She later attended the California School of Fine Arts from 1922 to 1924 on a scholarship.  She established a career in San Francisco, but that was interrupted by illness and living in San Diego until 1928.  From 1929 to 1932, she attended Columbia University Teacher's College in New York City and did free lance decorating and taught art classes.

On a return visit to California in 1930 she stopped in Taos, New Mexico, which give her new perspectives into western landscape and had much influence on her subsequent work.

In San Francisco, she established a studio, married artist Albert Barrows, and became one of twenty-six artists selected by the Public Works Art Project to decorate Coit Tower and als   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4290 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Research resources

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Edith Anne Hamlin available:    Clyde (Victor Clyde) Forsythe,  James Swinnerton,  Ray Roberts,  Maynard Dixon,  Conrad Buff,  Warren Eliphalet Rollins,  Ferdinand Burgdorff,  Agnes Lawrence Pelton,  Cornelius Botke,  Ralph William Holmes,  Charles Henry Harmon,  Elbridge Ayer Burbank,  George Booth Root Post,  Anna Althea Hills,  Geneve Rixford Sargeant,  Louis Siegriest,  Thomas Hunt,  Rinaldo (Richard) Cuneo,  George Demont Otis,  Erle Loran,  David Howard Hitchcock,  William Clapp,  Mary DeNeale Morgan,  August Gay



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Edith Anne Hamlin


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Design
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art MediaArt Style
  • Impressionism Before 1940
Art SubjectGeography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Arizona Before 1945
  • California Before 1940
  • Grand Canyon, Arizona
  • Mexico and/or Central America
  • New Mexico Before 1940
  • Taos, New Mexico Before 1940
Art Association
  • Salons of America
  • San Francisco Art Association-
Art Teacher
  • Maynard Dixon
Art School
  • California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Coit Tower Muralist, San Francisco
  • Genre Specialty
  • Mural Specialty
  • WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Salons of America-
  • San Francisco Art Association
Exhibition of Museum
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York

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