Norah Hamilton

Norah Hamilton (December 3, 1873 – February 9, 1945) was an American artist, and the director of the Children's Art program at Hull House where she lived for more than 20 years. She was a pioneer in art education for underprivileged children.

Biography Hamilton was born on December 3, 1873, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the daughter of Gertrude Pond (1840–1917) and Montgomery Hamilton (1843–1909). Her older sister Edith Hamilton (1867–1963) was an internationally-known author who was one of the most renowned classicist of her era; Alice Hamilton (1869–1970) was one of the founders of industrial medicine; Margaret Hamilton (1871–1969) was an educator; Arthur Hamilton (1886–1967) was a writer, professor of Spanish, and assistant dean for foreign students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Three cousins, sisters Katherine Hamilton (1862-1932), Jessie Hamilton (1864-1960) and Agnes Hamilton (1868-1961) were artists like Norah, and Agnes was a settlement worker as well.

She first attended the Miss Porter's School, Farmington, Connecticut, and then the Fort Wayne School of Art, studying under J. Ottis Adams and William Forsyth. and Exploring the Dangerous Trades written by her sister Alice in 1943.

She was a member of the Chicago Society of Etchers, founded in January 1910, the first organization of etchers in the country.

Hamilton never married and never had children. She died on February 9, 1945, in New York. She is buried at Cove Cemetery in Hadlyme, Connecticut, in the same cemetery as Hamilton's mother (Gertrude) and her sisters (Alice, Margaret, and Edith), and Edith and Margaret's life partners, Doris Fielding Reid and Clara Landsberg.

Exhibitions Works by American Etchers. Chicago Society of Etchers. AIC. 1911