Stephen Hamilton ( d. 1993)

Stephen Hamilton was a Massachusetts watercolor artist born in Conway, MA.  He painted prolifically in the Amherst, 
Northampton, and Western MA area, and was one of the founders of the Leverett Crafts and Arts Center in Leverett, 
Massachusetts. He lived most of his life in Amherst with his wife Genevieve, where he also served on the towns planning board.  
He taught art at the Stoneleigh-Burnham School in Greenfield where he was the head of the Art Department and also worked as 
the Executive Director of the Amherst Boys Club from 1945 – 1982, helping young artists start down the road to their own 
creativity. He tutored many aspiring young artists, many of which went on to become quite accomplished in their own right.  While 
at the club, he created dry point etchings, that became very popular, but he always continued to paint in the medium of his first 
love, watercolors.  The club still retains a collection of Hamilton’s artwork, and has prints of some of his popular watercolors 
available.
   His work has been shown in American and International art venues, and his work can be found in scores of private and
corporate collections throughout the United States and beyond.    Although he specialized in local Western MA watercolor 
landscapes, a fair portion of his work was also done in Hawaii, British Columbia, and in the Maritime Provinces of eastern Canada.  
There are collections of Stephen Hamilton paintings of local Amherst, MA buildings and landscapes displayed at the Amherst 
Police Station, South Congregational Church, and the Ann Whalen House in Massachusetts.
   Hamilton painted murals for the Massachusetts Building at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, Massachusetts 
where he also served as Display Director. His work was exhibited locally and at the Commerford Gallery and Columbia University, 
both in New York City; Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada; Watercolor U.S.A. in Springfield, Missouri; and the Academic 
Artists Asssociation in Springfield. His works were also shown at The Alpine Galleries in London in 1947. Queen Mary
attended the exhibition opening.
  Hamilton was a director of the Mohawk Trail Concert Association, and a President of the Academic Artists Association, the 
Amherst Art Center, the Hampshire Weavers Association, and the Deerfield Valley Art Association. He also directed the New 
England Grenfell Association, and was a director of the New England Weavers Seminar. Hamilton died on Sunday,
November 28, 1993