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| | Born in Kipp, KS on April 24, 1906. From UCLA Hamner enrolled at the Otis Art Institute in 1925 for a four-year course. After that he studied at the Graduate School of Fine Arts at Yale where he received his B.F.A. degree in 1932. He worked as an animator for Disney Studios for eight years and then became director of U. B. Iwerks Cartoons. By 1941 he was teaching at Otis and producing his own commercial films. From 1945-66 he headed the art department at Chadwick School in Rolling Hills, CA. Upon retirement, he moved to Telluride, CO and established a studio-home in an 1880’s saloon. He died in Los Angeles on July 13, 1997. Exh: Younger Painters of LA, 1929. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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