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"Robert Hamilton retired to Port Clyde, Maine in 1981, after thirty four years of teaching at Rhode Island School of Design. His idiosyncratic paintings are variously inhabited by anonymous figures including tennis players, masked bandits who double as train conductors, museum guards, circus performers, military heroes, fellow artists, fighter pilots, opera singers and a menagerie of lions ...
Born in Seneca Falls, New York, Robert Hamilton attended the Rhode Island School of Design from 1935-1939. After a tour of duty in WWII where he earned a Distinguished Flying Cross piloting P47’s, he returned to RISD, where he taught painting and drawing until his retirement 34 years later. He liked to say that his artistic vision was born ...
US$3,800. Robert Hamilton. Untitled (Binoculars), 1996. Dowling Walsh. US$3,800. Prev. 1 2 3. Discover and purchase Robert Hamilton’s artworks, available for sale. Browse our selection of paintings, prints, and sculptures by the artist, and find art you love.
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Robert Hamilton's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 50 USD to 602 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2006 the record price for this artist at auction is 602 USD for Fall landscape, sold at Aspire Auctions in 2021. Robert Hamilton has been featured in articles for Maine ...
Robert Hamilton’s early art training, career, and service as a P-47 fighter pilot during World War II Interested in art from an early age, Robert Hamilton entered RISD in 1935. There he met John Robinson Frazier, “one great teacher,” as he said, who taught him that his objectives should be what Thomas Eakins’ had been—a classical ...
Robert Hamilton: Feeding the Fishes Robert Hamilton (1917‑2004) graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1939. During World War II, he was a captain and P47 bomber pilot, flying one hundred missions and earning a Distinguished Flying Cross. Following the war, he returned to RISD to teach painting and drawing for thirty-four years. Artists Yvonne Jacquette, George Lloyd, David ...
Oct 22, 2016 · Taken one painting at a time, as I had known his work prior to this summer, the artist Robert Hamilton’s work is if not playful then dark, peopled with eclectic, mythical characters floating in a liquid, dreamy depth of color, graphic, and shape. Surfaces appear haphazard and casual, and paint is applied with an ease bordering on recklessness.
