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Theora Alton Hamblett

Theora Alton Hamblett (1895 - 1977) was active/lived in Mississippi.  Theora Hamblett is known for Folk art, dream and vision painting.

Theora Hamblett (1895-1977) was inspired to paint by her dreams. She also painted cherished memories of her own and of people close to her—the old O'Tuckolofa School, children's games, "trees along the highways," making lye soap and sorghum, and carrying cotton to the gin.

Hamblett was born on a 200-acre farm near Paris, Mississippi, that had been owned by her father since before the American Civil War, and she understood farm chores and responsibilities from an early age.  She graduated from Lafayette County Agricultural High School, near Oxford, Mississippi, and attended Mississippi Normal College before teaching primary grades in small rural schools on and off for fifteen years.  Teaching was not satisfying to her, though; and a business she tried, raising chickens, was financially unsuccessful.  She moved to Oxford, where she bought a house and converted it into rental apartments.  A lingering yearning led her to fill the rooms with paintings.

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Facts about Theora Alton Hamblett

   Publications  Book References:  29
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Theora Alton Hamblett
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Women's Art Journal The Visionary Paintings of Theora Hamblett November 1991 Groothkerk, Paul Yes
29 Book References for Theora Alton Hamblett
Year Author Title Pages Color
2016 Ferris, William The South in Color: A Visual Journal 120 Yes
2013 Bonner, Judith and Estill Curtis Pennington The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 21: Art and Architecture 592 Yes
2013 Crown, Carol and Cheryl Rivers The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 23: Folk Art 520 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Sellen, Betty-Carol Self Taught, Outsider and Folk Art A Guide to American Artists 326 No
1998 Black, Pattie Carr Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980 359 Yes
1997 Barnwell, Marian (Editor) A Place Called Mississippi: Collected Narratives 467 Yes
1996 Delehanty, Randolph Art in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection 292 Yes
1991 Hall, Lee Betty Parsons Artist, Dealer, Collector 192 Yes
1990 Chiarmonte, Paula L Women Artists in the United States: A Selective Bibliography and Resource Guide On the Fine and Decorative Arts, 1750-1986 0 Yes
1990 Rosenak, Chuck and Jan Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of 20th Century Folk Art and Artists 416 Yes
1989 Wilson, Charles Reagan and William Ferris (Co-Editors) The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 1 1608 No
1988 Smith, Elise Brevard (Essay); Liliclaire C. McKinnon (Text) Marie Hull and Her Contemporaries: Theora Hamblett and Kate Freeman Clark (Mississippi Museum of Art)
(Exhibition catalog)
15 Yes
1987 Meyer, George (Editor) Folk Artists Biographical Index 0 No
1985 Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 851 No
1982 Ferris, William Local Color: A Sense of Place in Folk Art 241 Yes
1981 Dollarhide, Louis Of Art and Artists: Selected Reviews of the Arts in Mississippi, 1955-1976 162 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1975 Hamblett, Theora, In Collaboration with Edwin Meek Dreams and Visions, Paintings by Theora Hamblett 66 Yes
1975 Meek, Ed; Haynie, William S. Theora Hamblett Paintings 96 Yes
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1970 Hamblett, Theora, as told to Betty Hackett Dreams Can Work For You 0 Yes
1970 Kay, Ernest Two Thousand Women of Achievement 1000 No
1966 Hamblett, Theora Symbols of Faith in The Beyond 16 Yes
1962 DeJean, Patrick K. A Wish, A Vision and Their Fulfillment 0 Yes
1962 Phay, Robert H. Miss Theora Hamblett, Primitive Artist of Oxford, Mississippi: Her Work 64 No
1959 Bihalji-Merin, Oto Modern Primitives: Masters of Naive Painting 290 No
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