James Hampton (artist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American outsider artist
Date of Birth: 08-Apr-1909
Place of Birth: South Carolina, United States
Date of Death: 04-Nov-1964
Profession: artist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About James Hampton (artist)
- James Hampton (April 8, 1909 – November 4, 1964) was an American outsider artist from Washington, D.C.
- who worked as a janitor but secretly built a large assemblage of religious art from scavenged materials known as the Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly currently on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
- Art critic Robert Hughes of Time magazine wrote that the Throne "may well be the finest work of visionary religious art produced by an American".
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