Edwin Holgate
Edwin Headley Holgate RCA (August 19, 1892 – May 21, 1977), was a Canadian artist, painter, muralist, and wood-cut artist. 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 his treatment of the female nude in an outdoor setting in a series of paintings and prints during the 1930s.
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| Born | Edwin Headley Holgate August 19, 1892 Allandale, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | May 21, 1977 (aged 84) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Known for | painter and engraver |
| Spouse | Mary Frances Rittenhouse (m. 1920) |
| Awards | Art Association of Montreal's Jessie Dow Prize (1938) |
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