Forever Ham!

African American Artist Database


Artist’s Name James Hampton
Date of Birth
April 8, 1908
Place of Birth Elloree, South Carolina
Date of Death November 4, 1964
Occupation Folk Installation Artist


Title “The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly”
Media Found Objects
Date -1964
Size (180 objects)
Location The National Museum of American Art
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Selected Books
Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe. “The Throne of Millennium General Assembly: James Hampton: March 8 through June 19, 1977, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama.” Montgomery, Ala.: Museum of Fine Arts, 1977.

Livingston, Jane; Beardsley, John. “Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980.” Jackson: The University Press of Mississippi, 1982.



Selected Articles
Bottoms, Greg. “The Gospel According to James.” Utne Reader. Issue 110 (March/April 2002):76. Academic Search Premier. EBSCOhost. C.G. O’Kelly Library. Winston-Salem, NC. 2006 November 15.

Gould, Stephen Jay. “James Hampton’s Throne and Dual Nature of Time.” Smithsonian Studies in American Art. 1.1(Spring 1987):46-57. JSTOR. JSTOR. C.G. O”Kelly Library. Winston-Salem, NC. 2006 November 15.

Hartigan, L. R. Elijah Pierce and James Hampton: one good book begets another. Folk Art v. 19 (Summer 1994) p. 52-7. H.W.Wilson. Wilson Web. C.G. O’Kelly Library. Winston-Salem, NC. 2006 November 15.

Hartigan, L. R. Recent challenges in the study of African American folk art. International Review of African American Art v. 11 no. 3 ( 1994):26-29. H.W.Wilson. Wilson Web. C.G. O’Kelly Library. Winston-Salem, NC. 2006 November 15.

Powell, R. J. Art, history, and vision. The Art Bulletin v. 77 (September 1995) p. 379-82. HW Wilson. WilsonWeb. C.G. O’Kelly Library. Winston-Salem, NC. 2006 November 15.

Saar, Betye. “Temple for Tomorrow.” American Art. 8.3/4. (Summer 1994): 130-134. JSTOR. JSTOR. C.G. O’Kelly Library. Winston-Salem, NC. 2006 November 15.


Selected Websites