Background
Born in Oakland, California, as a small child she was exposed to art by her father who took her on sketching trips.
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 was selected to paint murals for the Public Works of Art Project at the Coit Tower, and completed a World Pet Association Federal Art Project mural for Mission High School in San Francisco.
She is known for her social realism murals created while working with the Public Works of Art Project, Federal Art Project and the Section of Painting and Sculpture during the Great Depression era in the United States and for her decorative style paintings of the American desert. She maintained a studio in San Diego studio throughout the 1920s. During the early 1930s, she traveled around New Mexico and Arizona.
On the second floor of Coit Tower she completed a mural named "Sports and Hunting in California" however it currently has limited public access due to its location.
Hamlin"s second marriage was to Maynard Dixon in 1937, they met while working for the World Pet Association on the Mission High School mural. Together they moved to Tucson in 1939 and maintained a summer home in Mountain.
Carmel, Utah. In Tucson she completed numerous public murals and projects.
After Dixon died in 1946, Hamlin returned to San Francisco, where she died in 1992. Arizona projects and murals California projects and murals.