Jacqueline Hick was an Australian painter whose work is held in the permanent collections of multiple museums in Australia.
15 Facts About Jacqueline Hick
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Jacqueline Hick is known for her work depicting human figures and the Australian landscape.
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Jacqueline Hick is the subject of the 2013 book Jacqueline Hick: Born Wise.
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Jacqueline Hick studied at several places include the South Australian School of Art, the London Central School of Art, Academie Montmartre in Paris.
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Dowie sculpted a bronze of Jacqueline Hick that was in the National Gallery of Victoria, and wrote a poem in her honor.
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Jacqueline Hick trained with the Australian artist Ivor Hele, and in the 1960s studied in the USA and Mexico.
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From 1968 until 1976 Jacqueline Hick was a trustee at the Art Gallery of South Australia, the second woman to hold this position after Ursula Hayward.
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Jacqueline Hick identified with the Antipodeans, Australia artists working on the themes of "isolation, drought, exploration, pioneers, and colonial crime".
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Jacqueline Hick increasingly showed the human suffering of the Indigenous Australians, and the adverse effects of metropolitan life on its inhabitants.
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Jacqueline Hick's work is mentioned multiple times in art historian Bernard Smith's 2001 book on Australian painting.
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Jacqueline Hick's work is part of the permanent collection of the following museums:.
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Jacqueline Hick's work is found in the London Guild Hall, the Mertz Collection in the United States, and the Raymond Burr Collection in the United States.
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In 2013 a book covering Jacqueline Hick's life, Catherine Jacqueline Hick: Born Wise, was published.
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In 1953 Jacqueline Hick won a prize in a Dunlop competitions for her water color works, and won again in 1955 and 1956.
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Jacqueline Hick won the Cornell Prize twice, in 1958 for her piece Horse Destroyed and in 1960 for Corridor.