Edith Hamlin Explained

Edith Hamlin
Birth Date:June 23, 1902
Birth Place:Oakland, California, US
Death Date:February 18, 1992 (aged 89)
Death Place:San Francisco, California, US
Alma Mater:California School of Fine Arts
Columbia University
Known For:Painting, murals
Movement:Social realism
Spouse:Albert Barrows (1933–1936)
Maynard Dixon (1937–1946)

Edith Ann Hamlin (June 23, 1902 – February 18, 1992)[1] 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.[2]

Biography

Born in Oakland, California, she was exposed to art by her father, Charles Hamlin, who took her on sketching trips as a small child. Hamlin won a scholarship to the California School of Fine Arts (1922–1924) and later attended the Teachers College at Columbia University from 1929 until 1932.[3] [4]

She maintained a studio in San Diego throughout the 1920s. In 1933, Hamlin established a studio in San Francisco, and 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,[5] and completed a WPA Federal Art Project mural for Mission High School in San Francisco.[6] 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.[7] [8] She worked with Maynard Dixon on the murals, and married him in 1937, after she divorced her first husband in 1936.

She also painted for the Department of the Interior Building in Washington, DC.[9]

Hamlin completed another project for the WPA as she painted two large murals for the Mission High School (San Francisco).

She and Dixon moved to Tucson in 1939 and maintained a summer home in Mt. Carmel, Utah. In Tucson, she completed numerous public murals including two for the Santa Fe Railroad. After Dixon died in 1946, Hamlin had his ashes buried on a hill near their house where she also constructed a studio for herself. She married the artist Frank Knight Dale[10] who did not live long and she returned to San Francisco in 1953, where she died in 1992.

Legacy

The Maynard and Edith Hamlin Dixon House and Studio, operated by the Thunderbird Foundation, offers guided tours by appointment of their home and studio in Mount Carmel, Utah.[11] Their house has been on the Register of Historic Places since 2002.[12]

Notable work

Arizona projects and murals

California projects and murals

See also

References

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: About Edith Hamlin (June 23, 1902 - February 18, 1992) . January 22, 2015 . Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150123030139/http://www.thunderbirdfoundation.com/learn/edith-hamlin/ . January 23, 2015 .
  2. Web site: EDITH HAMLIN (1902-1992). January 22, 2015. California Art Research Archive. 27 March 2014.
  3. Web site: Edith Hamlin Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts. www.gowestweb.com. GoWest Web Design. www.thunderbirdfoundation.com. 2018-04-25.
  4. Book: Emerging from the shadows : a survey of women artists working in California, 1860-1960. St. Gaudens, Maurine. 9780764348877. 1061807224.
  5. Web site: Coit Tower: Hamlin Mural – San Francisco CA. Living New Deal. 2016-03-22.
  6. Web site: Mission High School Murals – San Francisco CA. Living New Deal. 2016-03-22.
  7. Web site: Coit Tower & PWAP Murals on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. January 22, 2015. inetours.com. Lee W. Nelson. https://web.archive.org/web/20120531151333/http://www.inetours.com/Pages/SFNbrhds/Coit_Tower.html. May 31, 2012. dead.
  8. Web site: Coit Tower "Hunting in California" Mural – San Francisco CA. January 22, 2015. The New Living Deal. Tibbetts. John.
  9. Book: Moore, Sylvia. Yesterday and tomorrow : California women artists. Midmarch Arts Press. 1989. 0960247696. New York. 15. registration.
  10. Web site: Inventory of the Frank Knight Dale collection, 1935-1956.
  11. Web site: About the Foundation. Thunderbird Foundation. 26 September 2016.
  12. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration form. Bingham. etal. Paul. 2001.
  13. News: Photos: Jacome Family #5. Arizona Daily Star. 2018-09-13. en.
  14. Web site: Mission High School "Mission San Francisco de Asis" Mural – San Francisco CA . January 22, 2015 . The New Living Deal . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150123025138/http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/mission-high-school-mission-san-francisco-de-asis-mural-san-francisco-ca/ . January 23, 2015 .
  15. Web site: Mission High School "Civilization Through the Arts and Crafts as Taught to the Neophyte Indians" Mural – San Francisco CA. January 22, 2015. The New Living Deal.
  16. Web site: Tracy Post Office "Overland Pioneers" – Tracy CA . January 22, 2015 . The New Living Deal . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150123032930/http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/tracy-post-office-overland-pioneers-tracy-ca/ . January 23, 2015 .
  17. Web site: Tracy Post Office Spaniards . January 22, 2015 . The New Living Deal . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150123024740/http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/tracy-post-office-spaniards-tracy-ca/ . January 23, 2015 .
  18. Web site: Tracy Historical Museum "Days of the First Railroad" Mural – Tracy CA . January 22, 2015 . The Living New Deal . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150123024859/http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/tracy-historical-museum-days-first-railroad-mural-tracy-ca/ . January 23, 2015 .

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