Background
Julian Rix was born on December 30, 1850 at Peacham, Vermont, the son of Alfred and Maria Chastina (Walbridge) Rix, and a descendant of Thomas Rix who settled in Salem, Massachussets, before 1649.
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Julian Rix was born on December 30, 1850 at Peacham, Vermont, the son of Alfred and Maria Chastina (Walbridge) Rix, and a descendant of Thomas Rix who settled in Salem, Massachussets, before 1649.
Early in life Julian went West. He obtained employment in San Francisco as an errand boy for a paint store, and soon began to decorate the walls with drawings.
His parents evidently refused to aid him, for in his will he referred to a time when "my own relatives and family did not put forth a helping hand to me". Thus, instead of attending an art school, he became a sign and decorative painter. He loved outdoor life and especially admired the beauty of the California coast; it was quite natural, therefore, for him to turn his artistic talent to landscape painting.
He began his career in 1875 with black and white sketches of local scenery, and though he later did water colors and oil paintings with equal skill, he continued to work also in black and white, making etchings until the time of his death.
In 1888, after he had gained recognition in the West, he was induced by William Ryle, a Paterson visitor in San Francisco, to try his luck in the East. Accordingly, Rix opened a studio, first in Paterson, New Jersey, then in New York City, and soon began to attract attention by his excellent work.
Some of his most notable landscapes were painted in his summer studio on the Ryle estate at North Caldwell, New Jersey.
Rix's earlier etchings and paintings were on subjects found in California, and among these is his well-known "Golden Gate. " Later he chose subjects from New Jersey and other parts of the East, notably Maine. Like Jules Tavernier, whose work must have influenced his own, he loved to paint deep shadows, gray skies, and shady trees. He tried to put what he called "feeling" and atmosphere into his work, destroying many of his earlier pictures because he felt that they lacked the proper atmospheric effect. He also made a number of fine etchings to illustrate articles on California for Harper's Magazine and Harper's Weekly.
He died in New York City and was buried in the Ryle plot in Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, New Jersey. In his will, he requested that Thomas B. Clarke, art connoisseur, examine all his paintings and "destroy any which, in his judgment, is not worthy of my name. "
Among his notable paintings may be mentioned: "Pompton Plains, New Jersey" (1898), in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; "Noon-Day, " a fine study of the effect of sunlight on trees and a winding country lane; "Sunset, California Coast"; "High Tide, Coast of Maine"; "The Woodland Spring, Mike Marr's Camp, Moosehead, Maine"; and "St. John's Harbor" (1903). His work is to be found in private collections in Baltimore, New York, Paterson, and Rochester.
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Rix is described by intimate friends as exceptionally good-natured, a Bohemian, and something of a raconteur.
He never married.
