Hannah Tompkins
Painting, Visual Artist
1920 – 1995
Who was Hannah Tompkins?
Hannah Tompkins was an American artist primarily known for her large body of artwork based on the writings of William Shakespeare. A catalog listing of her Shakespeare themed oil paintings appears in Shakespeare in American Painting : A Catalogue from the Late Eighteenth Century to the Present by Richard Studing.
She began painting in earnest in the mid-1960s while teaching art at Ramapo Community College, Rockland County, New York. In 1979 she opened the Shambles Gallery in Santa Cruz, California and in 1984 opened the Shakespeare Art Museum in Ashland, Oregon.
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- Born
- Jan 17, 1920
New York City - Lived in
- New York City
- Brooklyn
- Died
- Oct 25, 1995
Clearwater
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on July 23, 2013
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