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{{Short description|Canadian artist (1892–1977)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2023}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Edwin Holgate
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| birth_name = Edwin Headley Holgate
| birth_date = {{birth date|1892|08|19}}
| birth_place = [[Innisfil
| death_date = {{death date and age|1977|05|21|1892|08|19}}
| death_place = [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], Canada
| nationality =
| known_for = [[Painting|painter]] and [[engraver]]
| spouse = Mary Frances Rittenhouse (m. 1920)
| training =
| movement =
| notable_works =
| patrons =
| awards = Art Association of Montreal's Jessie Dow Prize (1938)
}}
'''Edwin Headley Holgate''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA|size=100%}} (August 19, 1892
== Life and career ==
[[File:People. Edwin C. Holgate BAnQ P48S1P05635.jpg|thumbnail|left|Edwin Holgate painting in his workshop, Montreal, 1940]]
Holgate was born in [[Innisfil|Allandale]], [[Ontario]], Canada, the son of Bessie Bell (Headley) and Henry Holgate.<ref>{{cite web |title=Edwin Holgate |url=http://www.patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca/rpcq/detail.do?methode=consulter&id=9205&type=pge |website=patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca/ |publisher=Government of Quebec |access-date=May 6, 2021}}</ref> 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]]
Holgate's first exhibition was held at the Arts Club of Montreal in 1922. In 1933, he had a solo exhibition at the [[Montreal Museum of Fine Arts]].<ref name="cogeval">{{cite book |last1=Cogeval |first1=Guy |title='Director's Foreword". Edwin Holgate |date=2005 |publisher=Montreal Museum of Fine Arts |others=Rosalind Pepall, Brian Foss |location=Montreal |url=https://librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Edwin%20Holgate.%20Rosalind%20Pepall,%20Brian%20Foss.%20Montreal:%20Montreal%20Museum%20of%20Fine%20Arts&tab=LibraryCatalog&search_scope=UTL&vid=01UTORONTO_INST:UTORONTO&offset=0 |page=8 |access-date=May 6, 2021}}</ref> He taught wood engraving at the [[École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal]] from 1928 to 1934, then with [[Lilias Torrance Newton]] directed art classes at the museum from 1934 to 1936 and again, from 1938 to 1940.<ref name="cogeval" />
Holgate was said by [[A. Y. Jackson]] to be the
Holgate died in 1977 and was buried at [[Mount Royal Cemetery]] in
The [[National Gallery of Canada]] held a [[retrospective]] of his work which travelled across Canada in 1975.<ref name="pepall" /> The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts organized a second retrospective in 2005, curated by Rosalind Pepall and Brian Foss.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Lifeworks: A late modernist |last=Sibbald |first=Barbara |journal=Canadian Medical Association Journal |date=August 16, 2005 |volume=173 |issue=4 |pages=393–394 |doi=10.1503/cmaj.050924 |pmc=1188229 }}</ref>
==Notes==
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=== Bibliography ===
* Harper, Russell. ''Painting in Canada: A History 2nd ed.'' Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981. {{ISBN|0-8020-6307-1}}
* {{cite web |last1=Pepall |first1=Rosalind |last2=Foss|first2=Brian|title= Edwin Holgate |date=2005 |publisher=Montreal Museum of Fine Arts|location=Montreal|url=https://librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Edwin%20Holgate.%20Rosalind%20Pepall,%20Brian%20Foss.%20Montreal:%20Montreal%20Museum%20of%20Fine%20Arts&tab=LibraryCatalog&search_scope=UTL&vid=01UTORONTO_INST:UTORONTO&offset=0 |access-date=2021-05-08}}
* Reid, Dennis ''A Concise History of Canadian Painting'' 2nd Edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1988. {{ISBN|0-19-540663-X}}.
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