Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Hilda Rix Nicholas

Hilda Rix Nicholas

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/September 1, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 07:14, 18 August 2014 (UTC)



Hilda Rix Nicholas (née Rix, 1884–1961) was an Australian artist. After training under leading Heidelberg School painter, Frederick McCubbin, in 1907 Rix travelled to Europe and studied in both London and Paris. Visiting Tangiers in 1912, Rix was one of the first Australians to paint post-impressionist landscapes and was made a member of the Société des Peintres Orientalistes Français. Evacuated from France to England after the outbreak of World War I, in 1916 she met and married Major George Nicholas; she spent only three days with him before he returned to duty and was killed on the Western Front. Returning to Australia, Rix Nicholas held an exhibition of over a hundred works in Melbourne's Guild Hall. Many sold, including In Picardy, purchased by the National Gallery of Victoria. Spending the mid-1920s in Europe, she enjoyed significant success and was made an Associate of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. In 1926, Rix Nicholas returned again to Australia. A staunch critic of modernism, she disdained emerging artists such as Russell Drysdale and William Dobell, and fell out of step with Australian art. She held her last solo show in 1947 and died in 1961.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Florence Fuller, also an Australian artist, 2 August
 * Main editors: Hamiltonstone
 * Promoted: 2014
 * Reasons for nomination: 130th anniversary of the subject's birth and, for what it is worth, World War I features very prominently in her life and in its impact on her career.
 * Note: I have just completed and added a spoken word version of the article, which you can listen to here hamiltonstone (talk) 11:37, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Support as nominator. hamiltonstone (talk) 13:22, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Support - Nice work. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:26, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Support - Harizotoh9 (talk) 06:10, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Support - Glad to see Hilda so ably represented. Whiteghost.ink (talk) 06:23, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Support - Ceoil (talk) 21:12, 31 July 2014 (UTC)