Career
Hicks often lectured on 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 on the topic — measuring just 2 7/8 by 2 5/8 inches — called Art in Miniature. As a collector of miniature books, Hicks "felt it would make a lot of sense" to do a miniature book on art in miniature.
The book covers small-scale painting, sculpture, and engraving.
All proceeds from the book went to a scholarship program for Washington District of Columbia high school students planning to study art Hicks" paintings and other artwork were exhibited in Washington and Baltimore, London, Japan, and at the United States. Embassy in Gambia.
Several of her pieces were among the more than 500 works in an international exhibition of miniature art she helped organize at the Smithsonian Institution"s South. Dillon Ripley Center in 2004. Margaret Turner Hicks was born in Philadelphia.
She also taught elementary school and tutored soldiers before becoming a full-time artist in 1968, a year after the couple settled in Washington, District of Columbia. In addition to miniature art, she also made jewelry and clothing.
Her sweaters were known to be especially elaborate. She died of cancer on August 3, 2006. "There is something fascinating about the exquisite art of miniature painting.
The skill of the artist, reflected in the detail and delicate quality of the painting, reveals a world view often overlooked, except by those who take the time to see." — Margaret Hicks, artist"s statement.