Theora Hamblett (January 15, 1895 – March 6, 1977) was an American painter, one of the first Mississippi folk artists to achieve national prominence.

Carol Crown states that when Hamblett was eight years old, she was given crayons as a present which could have stimulated her interest in painting.

[2] Hamblett was a teacher in her early adulthood; she left the classroom in 1931, and cared for her dying mother for several years.

Hamblett's paintings are colorful and frequently harken back to her childhood on a farm, or depict stories from the Bible.

Some represent Hamblett's dreams or visions, frequently with religious symbolism (angels, chariots, butterflies, stairways, roses).

Hamblett painted landscape scenes of all four seasons, but she was extremely fond of autumn because of the dazzling color of the fall leaves.

Carol Crown states that as an artist Hamblett "developed a unique pointillist technique that invested her paintings with a distinctive look.

[18] In 1977, director William R. Ferris featured Hamblett in the documentary film "Four Women Artists," produced by the Center for Southern Folklore, as one of the four Mississippi women in the title, along with writer Eudora Welty, quilter Pecolia Warner, and embroiderer Ethel Wright Mohamed.

[19] In the 1980s, folk art scholar and then-art historian student Ella King Torrey wrote her graduate thesis on Hamblett.