# Edith Hamlin > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edith_Hamlin > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edith_Hamlin.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Hamlin > Source revision: 1341763454 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American painter (1902–1992)}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Edith Hamlin | honorific_suffix = | image = Edith Hamlin, American artist.jpeg | image_size = | alt = Portrait in black and white of woman in black dress with a large white bodice, lit from the right, against a black background. | caption = Hamlin, photo by [Sonya Noskowiak](/source/Sonya_Noskowiak) | birth_name = | birth_date = June 23, 1902 | birth_place = [Oakland, California](/source/Oakland%2C_California), US | death_date = February 18, 1992 (aged 89) | death_place = San Francisco, California, US | education = | alma_mater = [California School of Fine Arts](/source/California_School_of_Fine_Arts)
[Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University) | known_for = Painting, murals | notable_works = | style = | movement = Social realism | spouse = Albert Barrows (1933–1936)
[Maynard Dixon](/source/Maynard_Dixon) (1937–1946) | awards = | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | module = | native_name = | native_name_lang = }} '''Edith Ann Hamlin '''(June 23, 1902 – February 18, 1992){{Cite web|url=http://www.thunderbirdfoundation.com/learn/edith-hamlin/ |title=About Edith Hamlin (June 23, 1902 - February 18, 1992) |access-date=January 22, 2015 |website=Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150123030139/http://www.thunderbirdfoundation.com/learn/edith-hamlin/ |archive-date=January 23, 2015 }} was an American landscape and portrait painter, and muralist. She is known for her [social realism](/source/social_realism) murals created while working with the [Public Works of Art Project](/source/Public_Works_of_Art_Project), [Federal Art Project](/source/Federal_Art_Project) and the [Section of Painting and Sculpture](/source/Section_of_Painting_and_Sculpture) during the [Great Depression](/source/Great_Depression_in_the_United_States) era in the United States and for her decorative style paintings of the American desert.{{Cite web|url = https://bancroftlibrarycara.wordpress.com/edith-hamlin-1902-1992/|title = EDITH HAMLIN (1902-1992)|access-date = January 22, 2015|website = California Art Research Archive|date = 27 March 2014}} == Biography == Born in [Oakland, California](/source/Oakland%2C_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](/source/California_School_of_Fine_Arts) (1922–1924) and later attended the Teachers College at [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University) from 1929 until 1932.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thunderbirdfoundation.com/about/edith-hamlin/|title=Edith Hamlin {{!}} Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts|last=www.gowestweb.com|first=GoWest Web Design|website=www.thunderbirdfoundation.com|access-date=2018-04-25}}{{Cite book|title=Emerging from the shadows : a survey of women artists working in California, 1860-1960|author=St. Gaudens, Maurine|isbn=9780764348877|oclc=1061807224}} She maintained a studio in [San Diego](/source/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](/source/New_Mexico) and [Arizona](/source/Arizona). She was selected to paint murals for the Public Works of Art Project at the [Coit Tower](/source/Coit_Tower),{{cite web|title=Coit Tower: Hamlin Mural – San Francisco CA|url=https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/coit-tower-hamlin-mural-san-francisco-ca/ |publisher=[Living New Deal](/source/Living_New_Deal)|access-date=2016-03-22}} and completed a WPA Federal Art Project mural for [Mission High School](/source/Mission_High_School_(San_Francisco%2C_California)) in San Francisco.{{cite web|title=Mission High School Murals – San Francisco CA|url=https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/mission-high-school-civilization-arts-crafts-taught-neophyte-indians-mural-san-francisco-ca/ |publisher=Living New Deal|access-date=2016-03-22}} 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.{{Cite web|url = http://www.inetours.com/Pages/SFNbrhds/Coit_Tower.html|title = Coit Tower & PWAP Murals on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco|access-date = January 22, 2015|website = inetours.com|publisher = Lee W. Nelson|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120531151333/http://www.inetours.com/Pages/SFNbrhds/Coit_Tower.html|archive-date = May 31, 2012|url-status = usurped}}{{Cite web|url = http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/coit-tower-hunting-in-california-mural-san-francisco-ca/|title = Coit Tower "Hunting in California" Mural – San Francisco CA|access-date = January 22, 2015|website = The New Living Deal|last = Tibbetts|first = John}} She worked with [Maynard Dixon](/source/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](/source/Main_Interior_Building) in Washington, DC.{{Cite book|title=Yesterday and tomorrow : California women artists|last=Moore|first=Sylvia|publisher=Midmarch Arts Press|year=1989|isbn=0960247696|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/yesterdaytomorro00moor/page/15 15]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/yesterdaytomorro00moor/page/15}} Hamlin completed another project for the WPA as she painted two large murals for the [Mission High School (San Francisco)](/source/Mission_High_School_(San_Francisco)). She and Dixon moved to Tucson in 1939 and maintained [a summer home](/source/Maynard_and_Edith_Hamlin_Dixon_House_and_Studio) in [Mt. Carmel](/source/Mt._Carmel_Junction%2C_Utah), [Utah](/source/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{{Cite web|url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf0p3001pw/entire_text/|title = Inventory of the Frank Knight Dale collection, 1935-1956}}{{Better source needed|date=July 2019}} 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](/source/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.{{cite web|title=About the Foundation|url=http://www.thunderbirdfoundation.com/about|publisher=Thunderbird Foundation|access-date=26 September 2016}} Their house has been on the Register of Historic Places since 2002.{{Cite web|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/01001450.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration form|last=Bingham|display-authors=etal|first=Paul|date=2001}} == Notable work == === Arizona projects and murals === * ''Grand Canyon Pueblo & Taos Pueblo'', Painted in the Tucson Medical Center Old Administration Building for Santa Fe Railroad Chicago City Ticket Office, Oil and Canvas 1947. Buck Weaver and Milford Zornes assisting. * ''The Legend of Sun and Earth'', Arizona Biltmore Hotel Dining Room; Phoenix, Arizona, Oil and Canvas, 1949. * ''Christ and the Children'', St. Ambrose Catholic Church; Tucson, Arizona, Ethyl Silicate, 1950. (Over Painted) * ''Fray Marcos de Niza on an Exploration Trip to Arizona'', Jacome's Department Store; Tucson, Arizona, Steel-Reinforced Concrete, 1951 with Jack Maul, [Ettore DeGrazia](/source/Ettore_DeGrazia) and George Hardy assisting (Jacome donated the pieces to the city, and it now hang at the [Tucson Convention Center](/source/Tucson_Convention_Center), one at the west entrance and the other outside the Leo Rich Theatre).{{Cite news|url=https://tucson.com/news/photos-jacome-family/collection_3bdf27a4-4e67-11e4-9c16-bf9ba3b98bd2.html#5|title=Photos: Jacome Family #5|work=Arizona Daily Star|access-date=2018-09-13|language=en}} * ''Tucson in the ‘70s’ Old Pueblo Club''; Tucson, Arizona, Oil and Panel, 1952. === California projects and murals === * ''Mission San Francisco de Asis'', (painted with Jay Risling assisting), Mission High School Library, San Francisco, California{{Cite web|url=http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/mission-high-school-mission-san-francisco-de-asis-mural-san-francisco-ca/ |title=Mission High School "Mission San Francisco de Asis" Mural – San Francisco CA |access-date=January 22, 2015 |website=The New Living Deal |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150123025138/http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/mission-high-school-mission-san-francisco-de-asis-mural-san-francisco-ca/ |archive-date=January 23, 2015 }} * ''Civilization Through the Arts and Crafts as Taught to the Neophyte Indians, ''(painted with [Betty Willey](/source/Betty_Willey))'', ''Mission High School Library, San Francisco, California{{Cite web|url = http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/mission-high-school-civilization-arts-crafts-taught-neophyte-indians-mural-san-francisco-ca/|title = Mission High School "Civilization Through the Arts and Crafts as Taught to the Neophyte Indians" Mural – San Francisco CA|access-date = January 22, 2015|website = The New Living Deal}} * ''Sports and Hunting in California ''mural, Coit Tower, San Francisco, California * ''Overland Pioneers'', Tracy Post Office, [Tracy, California](/source/Tracy%2C_California), (painting is now missing){{Cite web|url=http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/tracy-post-office-overland-pioneers-tracy-ca/ |title=Tracy Post Office "Overland Pioneers" – Tracy CA |access-date=January 22, 2015 |website=The New Living Deal |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150123032930/http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/tracy-post-office-overland-pioneers-tracy-ca/ |archive-date=January 23, 2015 }} * ''Spaniards'', Tracy Post Office, Tracy, California{{Cite web|url=http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/tracy-post-office-spaniards-tracy-ca/ |title=Tracy Post Office Spaniards |access-date=January 22, 2015 |website=The New Living Deal |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150123024740/http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/tracy-post-office-spaniards-tracy-ca/ |archive-date=January 23, 2015 }} * ''Days of the First Railroad'', Tracy Post Office, Tracy, California{{Cite web|url=http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/tracy-historical-museum-days-first-railroad-mural-tracy-ca/ |title=Tracy Historical Museum "Days of the First Railroad" Mural – Tracy CA |access-date=January 22, 2015 |website=The Living New Deal |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150123024859/http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/tracy-historical-museum-days-first-railroad-mural-tracy-ca/ |archive-date=January 23, 2015 }} ==Gallery== Edith Hamlin Coit Tower Mural.jpg|''Sports and Hunting in California'', [Coit Tower](/source/Coit_Tower) Mission-High-Mural-3-edited.jpg|''Civilization Through the Arts and Crafts as Taught to the Neophyte Indians'', [Mission High School](/source/%3Aen%3AMission_High_School_(San_Francisco)) Hamlin Overland Trail.jpg|Hamlin's missing 1938 mural for the U.S. post office in [Tracy, California](/source/Tracy%2C_California) Maynard Dixon Home in Mount Carmel.jpg|Maynard Dixon and Edith Hamlin's house == See also == * [Maynard Dixon](/source/Maynard_Dixon), her spouse and fellow muralist * [Maynard and Edith Hamlin Dixon House and Studio](/source/Maynard_and_Edith_Hamlin_Dixon_House_and_Studio) ==References== {{Cite web |url= http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T096248?q=Edith+Hamlin&search=quick&source=oao_gao&pos=1&_start=1 |title=Dixon, (Lafayette) Maynard |work=oxfordartonline.com |access-date=12 October 2010 }} {{cite book |last1=Trenton |first1=Patricia |last2=D'Emilio |first2=Sandra |editor=Jeanne D'Andrea |title=Independent spirits: women painters of the American West, 1890-1945 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q0PoEZcs_csC&q=%22edith+hamlin%22&pg=PA150 |year=1995 |publisher=Autry Museum of Western Heritage |page=150|isbn=9780520202030 }} * Arnold, Elliott, Tucson Festival of Arts, 1951. * Ainsworth, Edward, Widening Horizons: Painters of the Western Desert, 1952. * Kovinick, Phil. The Women artist in the American West, 1976. * Eric Firestone Gallery, Women Artist of the West, 2004 * DVD- Maynard Dixon Art and Spirit 2008 ==External links== * [http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/collection/hamlin64.htm Oral history interview with Edith Hamlin and Dorothy Cravath, May 27, 1964] from Archives of American Art * [http://livingnewdeal.org/artists/edith-hamlin/ List of Edith Hamlin murals in California] from The Living New Deal website * [http://www.thunderbirdfoundation.com/ The Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts] in [Utah](/source/Utah), a non-profit organization furthering Maynard Dixon's legacy * '[http://www.maynarddixondoc.com Maynard Dixon: Art and Spirit]', a feature-length documentary from 2008 {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hamlin, Edith}} Category:1902 births Category:20th-century American painters Category:American muralists Category:Artists from Tucson, Arizona Category:1992 deaths Category:Artists from Oakland, California Category:San Francisco Art Institute alumni Category:Teachers College, Columbia University alumni Category:Painters from California Category:Painters from Arizona Category:Section of Painting and Sculpture artists Category:20th-century American women painters Category:American women muralists Category:Federal Art Project artists Category:Public Works of Art Project artists --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Edith Hamlin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Hamlin) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Hamlin?action=history)). 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