Biography from Martin-Zambito Fine Art:
| Born in Ontario, California, Patricial Nicholson became a painter with
a wide range of subject matter from social realism in the 1930s and
40s, to everyday genre, to religious themes, which first brought her
recognition as a fine artist.
She received a degree in medicine from the University of California at
Berkeley, and during that time did medical illustrations, which
developed her drawing skills. She married Ralph Nicholson in
1922, and in 1930 the couple moved to Seattle where she worked for
Boeing in the Research Division. She also began the serious study
of art, taking instruction from Peter Camfferman, Carl Morris and Mark
Topey, who was a special influence and whose studio she often used for
teaching her art classes. In 1955, Tobey said of her painting:
"The paintings of Patricia Nicholson speak to a deeper side of
ourselves. . . The religious spirit predominates in most of the
paintings. A Spirit often lost in our age of belief in the
material powers. . . With the sensitivity of technique and the power to
organize her material, and still more the ability to conceal her
artistry, she takes us into the realm of art." (91)
For ten years, she was an art instructor for the Women's University Club.
Exhibition venues included the Seattle Art Museum's Northwest Annuals
from 1939 to 1961, the Seattle World's Fair, and ongoing with the
Women Painters of Washington. In 1944 and 1965, she had solo
exhibitions at the Seattle Art Museum, and in 1957, a retrospective
exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum. She traveled including to
Europe and Japan where in 1961, she studied calligraphy.
Source;
David Martin, An Enduring Legacy: Women Painters of Washington 1930-2005
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