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Birth
1918 (New York, New York)
Death
1999 (Sonoita, Arizona)
Lived/Active
Arizona
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Cowboy-Indian genre, sculptor
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Western Painters
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Born in New York City and then settling in Scottsdale, Arizona, John (Johnny) Hampton became a renowned painter and sculptor of cowboy life that he grew to know first hand from living much of his life in the Southwest.
He was raised in Brooklyn and developed a love for the West from seeing Tom Mix movies. Acting out his fantasy of becoming a cowboy, he used pretended he was roping cows by using his mother's clothesline. He began illustration pulp magazines with western themes while he was (showing 500 of 2926 characters). |
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