Job Nixon
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Job Nixon (1891–1938) was an English painter and engraver.
He was born in 1891[1][2] in The Potteries, in Staffordshire.[2] When he was eighteen, he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art.[2] He later studied at the Slade School of Fine Art,[2] and then another scholarship enabled him to attend the British School of Engraving in Rome.[2]
He as known for his etchings and drypoints, producing over 75.[2] Many of these depicted places in France or Italy.[2] He became an associate of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1928 and a member in 1934.[3] His paintings are in a number of public collections, including those of Manchester Art Gallery,[4] the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery[1] the Royal Watercolour Society,[1] the Art Institute of Chicago,[5] the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,[6] the Auckland Art Gallery,[7] and the National Gallery of Victoria.[8] He died in 1938.[1][2] In a review of a 1972 exhibition by fellow Staffordshire-born engraver Geoffrey Heath Wedgwood, Edward Morris wrote:[9]
Wedgwood was one of the first pupils to be able to study engraving alone for his diploma [at the RCA] and he profited from the vigorous manner of Job Nixon [1891–1938] rather than from the more refined, delicate approach of the Professor, Sir Frank Short.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Nixon, Job, 1891–1938". ArtUK. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 "Job Nixon". British Council. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
- ↑ "Members". Royal Watercolour Society. Archived from the original on 12 March 2023. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
- ↑ "Job Nixon b 1891 – d 1938". Manchester Art Gallery. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
- ↑ "Job Nixon". Art Institute of Chicago. 5 August 1891. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
- ↑ "Job Nixon". Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
- ↑ "Job Nixon". Auckland Art Gallery. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
- ↑ "Job Nixon". National Gallery of Victoria. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
- ↑ Morris, Edward (July 1972). "Geoffrey Heath Wedgwood". Connoisseur. Vol. 180, no. 725. p. 239.
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