Robin Hill is an Australia

Australia

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n artist

Artist

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 and writer, living in the United States

United States

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 and specialising in natural history

Natural history

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 subjects, especially bird

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Hill was born in Brisbane

Brisbane

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, the capital of the Australian state of Queensland

Queensland

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, and moved to England

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 with his family a year later, where he lived for the next seventeen years. He was trained at the Wimbledon School of Art

Wimbledon College of Art

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 and, after moving back to Australia in 1948, at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School

National Gallery of Victoria Art School

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 and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

RMIT University

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. He worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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 helping to pioneer television documentaries on Australian wildlife, as well as producing and exhibiting his paintings.

Hill moved to the United States in 1971, where he established studios in Virginia

Virginia

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 and Washington D.C.. Since then he has had several exhibitions, including a solo show at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and an exhibition cosponsored by the World Wildlife Fund and the Australian Embassy. He has also undertaken numerous commissions. During the 1970s and 1980s, for example, Hill was commissioned to paint complete sets of American birds—The Endangered Species; The Ducks, Geese, and Swans; The Upland Game Birds; The Birds of Prey; and The Marsh Birds. This series of over 200 paintings is part of the permanent collection of the Morris Museum of Art

Morris Museum of Art

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 in Augusta, Georgia

Augusta, Georgia

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, which opened in 1992.

Publications

In addition to numerous articles in newspapers and magazines, Hill’s publications include:

• 1960. Australia’s Waterfowl. (Text by M.C. Downes and Ina Watson). Victoria: Fisheries & Wildlife.
• 1962. Bushland and Seashore. An Australian nature adventure. Melbourne: Lansdowne Press.
• 1967. Australian Birds. Melbourne: Thomas Nelson.
• 1968. Bush Quest. Melbourne: Lansdowne Press.
• 1970. The Corner. A naturalist's journeys in south-eastern Australia. Melbourne: Lansdowne Press.
• 1987. The Waterfowl of North America. Augusta, GA: Morris Communications Corporation.