Gene and Carlie Hamilton have been a husband-wife artist team since the mid-seventies.
Following Gene's four years of active duty in the U.S. Navy, the Hamiltons met while both were attending Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, where Gene received a BFA, and where Carlie was doing graduate work after receiving a BFA from Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois. They also earned teaching certificates in art.
The Hamiltons have been featured in several national publications, including The Artist's Magazine and American Artist Magazine. They were also featured in a l980 issue of The Iowan Magazine.
For many years Gene would travel with another artist, Larry Stark, who taught Gene the skills of silkscreen printing. Together they would show their art to dealers, consultants and museums all across the U.S., while living in Larry's various run-down vans. This was a lifestyle Gene remembers as being the basis for "paying his dues" in the art world!
Gene and Carlie worked together in the late seventies and through the eighties to make dozens of editions of serigraphs, -also correctly called "silkscreen prints", in addition to their paintings.
Using his in-laws' large lake home as a studio, Gene has made paintings and prints over the years which depict life at the lake. For a few years in the seventies, Carlie and Gene held art shows at the Green Lake, Wisconsin house which once had U.S. President William Taft as a summertime guest. Visitors to these shows would often come by boat across the large lake and tie-up to the pier, select a painting, and sail back across the lake!
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