Myra Hamilton Green | |
Birth Date: | November 28, 1924 |
Birth Place: | Fayetteville, Tennessee, U.S. |
Death Date: | March 26, 2002 |
Death Place: | Jackson, Mississippi, U.S. |
Resting Place: | Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Jackson, Mississippi, U.S. |
Occupation: | Painter |
Spouse: | Joshua Green |
Children: | Lynn Green Root |
Myra Hamilton Green (November 28, 1924 - March 26, 2002) was an American painter from the state of Mississippi. She specialized in portraits in acrylic paint.
Green was born on November 28, 1924, in Fayetteville, Tennessee.[1] [2] She was trained at the Art Students' League in Woodstock, New York.[3] Green attended Virginia Intermont College.[4]
Green specialized in portraits, and she used acrylic paint.[1] She was a member of the Mississippi Art Colony in the 1950s-1970s, and she taught workshops and lectures, including at Belhaven College and Millsaps College.[1] [2] With her daughter Lynn Green Root, who was also a painter, Green exhibited her paintings at the Municipal Art Gallery in Jackson, Mississippi in 1999. The exhibition was called Myra Green and Lynn Green Root: A Mother Daughter Exhibition.[3]
Green died on March 26, 2002, in Jackson, Mississippi,[1] and she was buried in Cedar Lawn Cemetery.[2] Green's family requested memorial donations to the Mississippi Museum of Art.[5]