About Edith Anne Hamlin

Name variants

Albert (Mrs) Barrows, Frank K Dale, Dixon, Edith Anne Hamlin Dixon
  • Biography

    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 wester...

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