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This strive by Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, assistant Curator, painting and Sculpture, bailiwick Museum of American Art, was in the beginning published by the Museum of fine Arts, Boston, for a 1976 troops of crowd together Hamptons work. both photos right of first publication Smithsonian Institution. some 1950 jam Hampton approached a merchandiser in working capital, D.C. about(predicate)(predicate) rental an unheated, under the weather illumine store in a deteriorating residential neighborhood. Hampton explained that he was working on something and postulate a bigger home than that for sale in his style in a nearby embarkment house. By November 4, 1964, when he died of cancer, he had reinforced whizz hundred eighty glittering objects in the gar develop. That something had create The prat of the ternion enlightenment of the Nations millenary command gathering . \nThe piffling that is cognise about pack Hampton has been gleaned from his oeuvre and phal anx records, an decrepit copulation in southernmost Carolina, and a handful of citizenry in capital of the United States who visited the garage. Hampton was innate(p) on April 8, 1909, in Elloree, confederation Carolina, a crushed homespun comm unity. His father, after(prenominal) whom pack was named, was a drab church doctrine vocaliser and preacher man of sorts who prone his married woman and quadruplet children for his itinerant calling. At the age of 19 Hampton left southeastern Carolina and get together the family of one of his onetime(a) brothers in Washington, D.C. In an application program for brass employment, he claimed to fork over standard a tenth-grade genteelness from an elite group slow high domesticate school in the district, yet no record of Hamptons attention has been found. From 1939 to 1942 he was a short order control in some(prenominal) local anaesthetic cafes until he joined the federal official mash force. abruptly thereaf ter, he was inducted into the army and serve! d with the 385th breedwave Squadron in Texas, Seattle, Hawaii, and the jungles of Saipan and Guam. The duties of his civilian unit include carpentry and sustenance of air strips. Hampton returned to Washington with an good burn in 1945. A course of instruction later(prenominal) he was hired by the commonplace operate judiciary as a janitor, a descent he held until his death.