Myra Hamilton Green

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]

• Black, Patti Carr (2008). Breathing Art: The Lives and Art of Myra Hamilton Green and Lynn Green Root. Jackson, Mississippi: Mississippi Museum of Art. ISBN 9781887422161. OCLC 909896738.