- Edwin Holgate
Edwin Holgate (born in Allandale,
Ontario onAugust 19 1892 ; died inMontreal ,Quebec onMay 21 1977 ), was a Canadian artist, painter and engraver. Holgate played a major role in Montreal's art community, and theMontreal Museum of Fine Arts , where he both studied and taught. He was known primarily as aportrait ist and for a number of female nudes in outdoor settings that he painted during the 1930s.Holgate's family moved to
Jamaica in 1895 where his father worked as an engineer. In 1897 he was sent toToronto to go to school. In 1901 his family returned from Jamaica and settled in Montreal.Holgate studied at the
Art Association of Montreal underWilliam Brymner (who also taughtA. Y. Jackson ) and laterMaurice Cullen . In 1912 he studied inParis . He was travelling in theUkraine at the outset ofWorld War I , and was forced to crossAsia to return to Canada. He returned toFrance with the Canadian Army.Holgate's first exhibition was held at the
Arts Club of Montreal in 1922. He taught wood engraving at theÉcole des Beaux-Arts de Montréal from 1928 to 1934.Holgate was considered the "eighth" member of the Group of Seven — he was invited to join the group in 1930. In 1935 he was elected associate of the
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts .He worked as a war artist in
England duringWorld War II . On his return to Montreal after the war, he found that the arts scene had changed, with the arrival of the Automatistes. He left Montreal to live in theLaurentians .The
National Gallery of Canada held a retrospective of his work in 1975. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts organized another retrospective in 2005.References
* Harper, Russell. "Painting in Canada: A History 2nd ed." Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981. ISBN 0802063071
* Reid, Dennis "A Concise History of Canadian Painting" 2nd Edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN 019540663X.
External links
* [http://www.mmfa.qc.ca/en/expositions/exposition_97.html Holgate Retrospective at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art]
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