Hilda Rix Nicholas b. 1 September 1884

Also known as Emily Hilda Nicholas, Hilda Rix, Emily Hilder Wright
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter born in Ballarat in 1884 who studied in Melbourne London and Paris. Her European and Moroccan works were met with critical acclaim in Australia, while her subsequent Australian subjects earned her the position of associate of the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts (New Salon).

Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : 35626/1961’.

  • Pigot, John (March 1992), 'Decadent, savage and primitive: Hilda Rix Nicholas and modernism’, Journal of Australian Studies, Number 32, .

  • Ambrus, Caroline (1984), 'The Ladies’ Picture Show’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Burke, Janine (1980), 'Australian Women Artists 1840-1940’, Collingwood, Victoria.

  • (1981), 'A Dictionary of Contemporary British Artists, 1929’, reprint Woodbridge (United Kingdom) under Wright, E. Hilda, [Dolman, Bernard (ed.)].

  • Mitchell, Avenel (1988), 'Emily Hilda Nicholas’, in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 11, [Serle, G. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Pigot, John (2000), 'Hilda Rix Nicholas: Her Life and Art’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1919), 'The Art of Hilda Rix Nicholas’, Anthony Horderns Art Gallery catalogue, Sydney, NSW, [Stevens, Bertram (intro.)].

  • Steventon, Marion (1 January 1919), 'The Work of E. Hilda Rix Nicholas’, in Woman, (1 January 1919).

  • '(Letters, journals and documents)’, Rix Nicholas Archive, Delegate, New South Wales.

  • (12 June 1919), 'Virile pictures, Mrs. Rix Nicholas’s exhibition’, Evening News.

  • (1994), 'Women and the bush: Hilda Rix Nicholas and the myth of the female artist in Australia’, Strange Women, Melbourne, Vic. [Hoorn, Jeanette (ed.)].

  • (1993), 'Capturing the Orient: Hilda Rix Nicholas and Ethel Carrick in the east’, Waverley City Gallery Catalogue, Melbourne, Vic.

See also

  • 'Mrs Rix Nicholas at Work on the South Coast on a Picture of Wallaga Lake, photograph (p.c.). Courtesy Christie's.'.
  • 'Section 11, plate 484', Heritage biography.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book