Hilda Rix Nicholas: a cosmopolitan artist in 1920s Sydney, Julie Petersen

Article from Vol 36 no 2, May 2014

Hilda Rix Nicholas: a cosmopolitan artist in 1920s Sydney, Julie Petersen

Abstract:

Hilda Rix Nicholas was one of Australia’s most successful international artists. When she returned to Australia in 1918, she brought her magnificent paintings infused with post- impressionist light and colour to a generation of young Australian artists, yet her triumphant homecoming had been marred by the loss of her sister, mother and husband. Here, Julie Petersen focuses on her period of recuperation, while living in Sydney’s leafy Mosman.

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