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American painter (1895–1977)

Theora Hamblett (January 15, 1895 – March 6, 1977) was an American painter, one of the first Mississippi folk artists to achieve national prominence.^[1] Hamblett's paintings can be divided into three categories: memory paintings, dream paintings, and landscape paintings.^[2]

Early life

Theora Alton Hamblett was born 15 January 1895, in Paris, Mississippi.

Her father Samuel was a Civil War veteran, who was 72 years old when Theora was born. She was educated at Lafayette County Agricultural High School and at Blue Mountain College. .^[3] Hamblett was raised in a very religious household and rotated between Methodist and Baptist churches.^[2]

Theora Hamblett became interested in painting at a young age, though she did not start taking painting classes until later in her life at age fifty-five.

Carol Crown states that when Hamblett was eight years old, she was given crayons as a present which co