biographie de Julian Walbridge RIX (1850-1903)

Birth place: Peacham, VT

Death place: NYC

Addresses: Patterson, NJ; NYC, from 1891

Profession: Landscape painter, illustrator, etcher

Studied: briefly a student of Virgil Williams at Calif. Sch. Design, San Fran., after 1868, but was mostly self-taught; Europe, 1889

Exhibited: Mechanics Inst., San Fran, 1878-87; PAFA Ann., 1882, 1887-88; San Fran. AA, 1883 (solo show, 200 paintings); NAD, 1884-86, 1891, 1894; Boston AC, 1886-1894; World's Columbian Expo, Chicago, 1893; AIC

Member: SC, 1888; Bohemian Club; Lotos Club.

Work: CGA; Minneapolis AM; TMA; Oakland Mus. Art; Crocker Mus., Sacramento; de Young Mus., San Fran.; Soc. Calif. Pioneers

Comments: During the last quarter of the 19th century, Rix was a prominent landscape painter. He was raised in Vermont, and in 1869 joined his family in San Francisco and attended school there. In 1876, he joined the art colony at Monterey (CA), then returned to San Francisco in 1879. He shared a studio with Jules Tavernier and, as a member of the Bohemian Club, actually led a "bohemian" lifestyle. In 1881, he moved to Paterson, NJ; then NYC in 1891. Illustr.: Picturesque California," 1888.

Sources: WW03; Hughes, Artists in California, 471-72; P&H Samuels, 402; Falk, Exh. Record Series.