Edith Hamlin

Edith Anne Hamlin was born in Oakland and as a small child was exposed to art by her father, who took her on sketching trips. She attended the California School of Fine Arts from 1922-24 and worked in San Diego throughout the 1920s. In 1929 she moved to New York and took several trips between there and the Pacific Coast, which took her through New Mexico and Arizona, influencing much of her subsequent work. She returned to San Francisco in 1933, and in 1934 married Albert Barrows, an artist and assistant to Diego Rivera on his CSFA mural. They divorced in 1936. That year, she received a WPA commission to do a set of murals in egg tempera at Mission High School (one was destroyed during remodeling). It was then she met Maynard Dixon, whom she married in 1937, serving as his assistant and living at studios in Tucson, AZ and Mount Carmel, UT until he died in 1946. She came back to San Francisco in 1953 with husband Frank K. Dale, and continued to paint and to restore some of her and Dixon's earlier murals until her death on February 18, 1992.

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