Nancy Adkin Ritchie
{{Short description|New Zealand artist (1916–1964)}}
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{{Infobox artist
| image = MA I380917 TePapa Woodside-Nancy-and-her full.jpg
| birth_date = 15 December 1916
| birth_place = Levin, New Zealand
| death_date = {{dda|1964|09|29|1916|12|15|df=y}}
| death_place = Wellington, New Zealand
| caption = Adkin and her art, 25 December 1933, photo by Leslie Adkin
| birth_name = Nancy Florence Adkin
| spouse = John A. H. Ritchie
}}
Nancy Florence Adkin Ritchie (15 December 1916 – 29 September 1964) was a New Zealand artist.{{Cite web |title=Adkin, Nancy |url= https://findnzartists.org.nz/en/artist/82/nancy-adkin |access-date=18 June 2024 |website=Find NZ Artists}} She was the daughter of Leslie Adkin.{{Cite web |last=Pollock |first=Kerryn |date=24 October 2018 |title=Pregnancy, birth and baby care - Childbirth, 19th century to 1950s |url=https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/26162/home-birth-1916 |access-date=1 January 2025 |website=Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand}}
Biography
Nancy Florence Adkin was born on 15 December 1916 in Levin, New Zealand, to Maud and Leslie Adkin.{{Cite web |title=Nancy Adkin |url=https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/agent/6513 |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa}}
She exhibited with the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts from 1933 to 1938.{{Cite book |last=Kay |first=Robin |url=https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/about/library/archives/portrait-of-a-centruy |title=Portrait of a century; the history of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts 1882-1982 |last2=Eden |first2=Tony |date=1983 |publisher=Millwood Press}} In 1940, she married John A. H. Ritchie.{{Cite news |date=26 January 1940 |title=Weddings |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19400126.2.7.1 |work=Dominion |pages=4 |volume=33 |issue=104}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Ritchie, Nancy Adkin |url=https://findnzartists.org.nz/en/artist/12788/nancy-adkin-ritchie |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=Find NZ Artists}} She, and her husband, both exhibited as part of The Group in their 1948 show.{{Cite book |url=https://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Publications/Art/TheGroup/pdfs/1948.pdf |title=48 Group Show Catalogue |date=1948}}{{Cite web |title=Ritchie, John |url=https://findnzartists.org.nz/en/artist/12785/john-ritchie |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=Find NZ Artists}}
File:Nancy Adkin eel catching Samoan school illustration.jpg
As well as exhibiting and selling paintings, Adkin Ritchie illustrated for Samoan school publications,{{Cite web |title=Samoa 1949-50 [44 items] |url=https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search#/?q=R20224204 |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=collections.archives.govt.nz}} and one of Leslie Adkin's book covers,{{Cite web |title=Nancy Adkin Ritchie's art work for cover of Leslie Adkin's book |url=https://horowhenua.kete.net.nz/item/a8b5ee88-c2c4-4465-952d-421d6f407836 |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=horowhenua.kete.net.nz |language=en}} and produced a mural for Hutt Intermediate School in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, in 1952.{{Cite web |title=Mural by Nancy Adkin Ritchie, at Hutt Intermediate school |url=https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/130113 |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa}}
Nancy Adkin Ritchie died on 29 September 1964 in Wellington, New Zealand.
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- {{Cite web |title=Kōrero: Pregnancy, birth and baby care |url=https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/agent/6513 |access-date=18 June 2024 |website=Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa}}
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Category:20th-century illustrators
Category:20th-century New Zealand women painters
Category:New Zealand muralists
Category:New Zealand women illustrators
Category:People associated with The Group (New Zealand art)