Margaret Hicks

Margaret Turner Hicks (September 28, 1923 – August 3, 2006) was a world-renowned producer and supporter of Miniature Art.

Favoring representational art, Hicks painted landscapes and nevertheless lifes and the occasional portrait, using small brushes and a magnifying glass to accomplish a high level of detail in paintings that were often just 2 to 4 inches wide.

Hicks often lectured upon Miniature Art and was President of the Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers Society of Washington from 1983 to 1988. In 1993 she published a miniature book upon the topic — measuring just 2 7/8 by 2 5/8 inches — called Art in Miniature. As a miser of miniature books, Hicks "felt it would make a lot of sense" to get a miniature book on art in miniature. The collection covers small-scale painting, sculpture, and engraving. All proceeds from the wedding album went to a scholarship program for Washington DC tall school students planning to study art.

Hicks' paintings and additional artwork were exhibited in Washington and Baltimore, London, Japan, and at the U.S. Embassy in Gambia. Several of her pieces were along with the exceeding 500 works in an international exhibition of miniature art she helped organize at the Smithsonian Institution's S. Dillon Ripley Center in 2004.

Margaret Turner Hicks was born in Philadelphia. She graduated from Temple University and went upon to assay art in Germany even if her husband (now-retired Army Col. Stanford R. Hicks) was posted overseas. She after that taught elementary assistant professor and tutored soldiers in the past becoming a full-time artist in 1968, a year after the couple approved in Washington, DC.

Hicks was an lithe leader in her community: President of The American Art League in Washington, member of the Arts club of Washington, Arts for Aging, The Miniature Art Society of Washington and extra arts and civic groups. In supplement to miniature art, she moreover made jewelry and clothing; her sweaters were known to be especially elaborate. She died of cancer on August 3, 2006.

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