 One of her students was Adele Williams of Richmond, Virginia.Nichols died on September 7, 1930, in Stamford, Connecticut, as the result of the osteoarthritis that had made her an invalid for the last 10 years of her life.In 2006 the Williams College Museum of Art held an exhibition of 25 of her watercolors and oil paintings—including landscapes, seascapes, and still lifes—from the collection of Walter and Berta Burr of Hoosick, New York.