Nancy Adkin
Nancy Florence Adkin Ritchie (15 December 1916 – 29 September 1964) was a New Zealand artist. She was the daughter of Leslie Adkin.
Also recorded as Nancy Florence Adkin · Nancy F. Adkin · Nancy Florence Ritchie · Nancy Adkin Ritchie
Nancy Adkin
Leslie Adkin · https: collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/125338 · Public domain
- Born
- 15 December 1916
- Birthplace
- Levin, New Zealand
- Place of death
- Wellington, New Zealand
- Birth Name
- Nancy Florence Adkin
- Spouse
- John A.
- Died
- 1964 · Wellington.
- Nationality
- New Zealand
- Occupation
- printmaker · painter
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• Born — 15 December 1916 • Birthplace — Levin, New Zealand • Place of death — Wellington, New Zealand • Birth Name — Nancy Florence Adkin • Spouse — John A. H. Ritchie
Biography
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Nancy Florence Adkin was born on 15 December 1916 in Levin, New Zealand, to Maud and Leslie Adkin. She exhibited with the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts from 1933 to 1938. In 1940, she married John A. H. Ritchie. After her marriage, she continued exhibiting with the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts from 1944 to 1953, and with both the Canterbury Society of Arts and Auckland Society of Arts, under the name Nancy Adkin Ritchie. She, and her husband, both exhibited as part of The Group in their 1948 show. • Illustration — An illustration for a Samoan School Publications of Eel Catching by Nancy Adkin Ritchie As well as exhibiting and selling paintings, Adkin Ritchie illustrated for Samoan school publications, and one of Leslie Adkin's book covers, and produced a mural for Hutt Intermediate School in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, in 1952. Nancy Adkin Ritchie died on 29 September 1964 in Wellington, New Zealand.
Woodside: Nancy and her art, 25 December 1933, by Leslie Adkin. Te Papa (A.006358)
Leslie Adkin · https: collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/125338
Woodside and Excursions from Woodside. Nancy Adkin and her birthday cake.
Leslie Adkin · https: collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/117596
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- 1.Adkin, Nancy. Find NZ Artists.
- 2.Pollock, Kerryn. Pregnancy, birth and baby care - Childbirth, 19th century to 1950s. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. 24 October 2018.
- 3.Nancy Adkin. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
- 4.Kay, Robin. Portrait of a century; the history of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts 1882-1982. Millwood Press. 1983.
- 5.Weddings. Dominion. 33. 104. 4. 26 January 1940.
- 6.Ritchie, Nancy Adkin. Find NZ Artists.
- 7.48 Group Show Catalogue. 1948.
- 8.Ritchie, John. Find NZ Artists.
- 9.Samoa 1949-50 [44 items]. collections.archives.govt.nz.
- 10.Nancy Adkin Ritchie's art work for cover of Leslie Adkin's book. horowhenua.kete.net.nz.
- 11.Mural by Nancy Adkin Ritchie, at Hutt Intermediate school. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
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