Edwin H. Holgate ENGL by Dennis Reid (January 19,1976)

Edwin H. Holgate ENGL by Dennis Reid (January 19,1976) Good Condition (Tiny tear at the hump that has been repaired. Clean, bright and unmarked.) Edwin Holgate (August 19, 1892 – May 21, 1977), was a Canadian artist, painter and engraver. Holgate played a major role in Montreal's art community, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, where he both studied and taught. He was known primarily as a portraitist 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 to Toronto to go to school. In 1901 his family returned from Jamaica and settled in Montreal.  Holgate studied at the Art Association of Montreal under William Brymner (who also taught A. Y. Jackson), Alberta Cleland[2] and later Maurice Cullen. In 1912, he studied in Paris. He was travelling in the Ukraine at the outset of World War I, and was forced to cross Asia to return to Canada. He returned t