Background
Hazlehurst, Franklin Hamilton was born on November 6, 1925 in Spartansburg, North Carolina, United States. Son of Robert Purviance and Lottie Lee (Nicholls) Hazlehurst.
Hazlehurst, Franklin Hamilton was born on November 6, 1925 in Spartansburg, North Carolina, United States. Son of Robert Purviance and Lottie Lee (Nicholls) Hazlehurst.
Student, Princeton University, 1943-1944; Bachelor cum laude, Princeton University, 1949; student, Ecole de Louvre, France, 1949-1950; Master of Fine Arts cum laude, Princeton University, 1952; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1956.
Assistant instructor department art and archaeology, Princeton (New Jersey) U., 1951-1953;
instructor, Princeton (New Jersey) U., 1954-1956;
lecturer and research assistant, The Frick collection, New York City, 1956-1957;
associate professor art history, U. Georgia, 1957-1963;
associate professor fine arts, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1963-1965;
professor fine arts, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1965-1995;
professor fine arts emeritus, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, since 1995. Lecturer Princeton Theological Seminary, 1956-1957. Chairman fine arts department Vanderbilt University, 1963-1990.
Invited lecturer in field.
Staff sergeant United States Army, 1944-1946, European Theatre of Operations. Member American Archaeol. Society, College Art Association American (grantee Millard Meiss publication fund 1979), Southeastern College Art Conference (president 1973-1974), Société de l'histoire de l'art francais, Society Architectural Historians.
Married Carol Foord, August 26, 1950. Children: Franklin Hamilton, Robert P. II, Mary Hadley, Abigail Norris.