Edith Hamlin

Who was Edith Hamlin?

Edith Hamlin was an American painter and muralist. Born in Oakland, California, as a small child she was exposed to art by her father who took her on sketching trips. Hamlin attended the California School of Fine Arts and the Teachers College at Columbia University.

She maintained a studio in San Diego studio throughout the 1920s. During the early 1930s, she traveled around New Mexico and Arizona. She completed a WPA mural project for Mission High School in San Francisco and was selected to paint murals at the Coit Tower.

Hamlin married Maynard Dixon in 1937. They moved to Tucson in 1939 and maintained a summer home in Mt. Carmel, Utah. In Tucson she completed numerous public murals and projects. After Dixon died, Hamlin returned to San Francisco, where she died in 1992.