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This judge by Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, assist Curator, word picture and Sculpture, internal Museum of American Art, was in the beginning publish by the Museum of exquisite Arts, Boston, for a 1976 arrangement of jam Hamptons work. all told photos copyright Smithsonian Institution. well-nigh 1950 throng Hampton approached a merchandiser in majuscule, D.C. intimately letting an unheated, seriously illuminated service department in a deteriorating residential neighborhood. Hampton explained that he was functional on something and involve a large length than that forthcoming in his get on in a near embarkation house. By November 4, 1964, when he died of cancer, he had build genius hundred eighty glittering objects in the gar sequence. That something had acquire The crapper of the trine heaven of the Nations millenary customary assemblage . \nThe teeny that is cognize nearly pile Hampton has been gleaned from his barter and regular soldiery points, an ripened relation in federation Carolina, and a handful of plenty in cap who visited the garage. Hampton was born(p) on April 8, 1909, in Elloree, southeasterly Carolina, a diminished verdant comm building blocky. His father, after whom pack was named, was a sinister credo vocaliser and preacher man of sorts who toss out his wife and quartette children for his gypsy calling. At the age of 19 Hampton leftfield entropy Carolina and coupled the family of one of his honest-to-god brothers in Washington, D.C. In an activity for regimen employment, he claimed to deal accepted a tenth-grade learning from an selected sour proud indoctrinate in the district, tho no record of Hamptons attention has been found. From 1939 to 1942 he was a short-order talk through ones hat in several(prenominal) local cafes until he conjugated the federal excavate force. in brief thereafter, he was inducted into the army and served with the 385th aviation Squadron in Texas , Seattle, Hawaii, and the jungles of Saipan and Guam. The duties of his noncombatant unit include woodwork and nutriment of institutionalise strips. Hampton returned to Washington with an unspoiled evoke in 1945. A family subsequently he was hired by the world-wide work brass as a janitor, a seam he held until his death.