NEWS: In August of 2011, Hamilton won two awards in the professional competition at the Maryland State Fair. In June of 2010, his work was awarded the Col. W.S. Corkran Award for the painting most representative of the Eastern Shore. In August, he was awarded second in the professional landscape competition at the Maryland State Fair. A selection of Rae's work is now hanging in Rockville, Maryland City Hall, the Mayor's Office.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Rae Hamilton's work is held in private collections across the country. He has been represented by the Venable Neslage Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Gallery Julian and the Prince Royal Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia, the D&K Gallery in Monkton, Maryland, and currently shows work at the Towson Framing Gallery in Towson, Maryland, the Rehoboth Art League galleries, and Cook Limited Antiques in Hereford, Maryland. Hamilton works almost exclusively in oils, but in a variety of genres, including landscapes, florals, and figures.
He received his formal art training at American University, but says he owes a debt of gratitude to the Impressionist and pre-Impressionist masters whose work he has studied extensively. Hamilton has also served on the board of directors of the historic Rock Creek Park Gallery in Washington, D.C., and won a number of awards in juried shows there. He currently is vice president of the board of the Northern Baltimore County Art Foundation, which is dedicated to the promotion of art within the community and provides college scholarships to promising high school student artists. Hamilton also writes a column profiling regional artists in Mason Dixon Arrive, a magaine distributed in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Harford County, and Carroll County, Maryland.