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'''Edwin Headley Holgate''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA}} (August 19, 1892 – May 21, 1977), was a [[Canadians|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 [[portrait]]ist and for a number of female nudes in outdoor settings that he painted during the 1930s.
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Holgate was born in 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=www.patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca/ |publisher=Government of Quebec |access-date=2021-05-06}}</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]] with [[Alberta Cleland]] (beginning in 1905),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://beaverhallgroup.weebly.com/edwin-holgate.html |title=Edwin Headley Holgate |work=The Beaver Hall Group Canada's other Group of Seven |publisher=Gibbs Appraisals Ltd |access-date=2014-06-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304142241/http://beaverhallgroup.weebly.com/edwin-holgate.html |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[William Brymner]] (who also taught [[A. Y. Jackson]]), and later [[Maurice Galbraith Cullen|Maurice Cullen]].<ref name="pepall">{{cite web |last1=Pepall |first1=Rosalind |title='An Art of Vigour and Restraint". 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 |access-date=2021-05-07}}</ref> From
Holgate's first exhibition was held at the Arts Club of Montreal in 1922. In 1933, he had a 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|p=8 |access-date=2021-05-06}}</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 joined the [[Beaver Hall Group]] in 1920.<ref name="pepall" /> He was the ninth member of the [[Group of Seven (artists)|Group of Seven]] — he was invited to join the group in March 1929 and showed with it in 1930 and 1931.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Silcox|first1=David P.|title=The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson|date=2011|publisher=Firefly Books Ltd.|isbn=978-1-55407-154-8|page=47}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/servlet/imageserver?src=DO93-1000&ext=x.pdf|title=CHARLES HILL INTERVIEW WITH EDWIN HOLGATE|last=Hill|first=Charles|date=20 September 1973|website=National Gallery of Canada|access-date=17 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180418031943/http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/servlet/imageserver?src=DO93-1000&ext=x.pdf|archive-date=18 April 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1934, he was elected an associate of the [[Royal Canadian Academy of Arts]]. He was elected a full member in 1935. He resigned in 1945 but was reinstated in 1953.<ref name=RCA1880>{{cite web|title=Members since 1880 |url=http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |publisher=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts |access-date=11 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526215339/http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |archive-date=26 May 2011 }}</ref> He was also a founding member of the [[Canadian Group of Painters]].<ref name="Bradfield">{{cite book |last1=Bradfield |first1=Helen |title=Art Gallery of Ontario: the Canadian Collection |date=1970 |publisher=McGraw Hill |location=Toronto |isbn=0070925046|url=https://search.library.utoronto.ca/search?N=0&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Nu=p_work_normalized&Np=1&Ntt=Helen%20Bradfield%2C%20canadian%20collection%20%2C%20art%20gallery%20of%20ontario&Ntk=Anywhere |access-date=2020-07-07}}</ref>
He worked as a war artist in [[England]] during [[World War II]]. On his return to Montreal after the war, he found that the arts scene had changed, with the arrival of the [[Les Automatistes|Automatistes]]. He left Montreal to live in the [[Laurentides|Laurentians]] in 1946.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sobeyartfoundation.com/en/crombie-collection/the-group-of-seven/edwin-holgate/|title=Edwin Holgate|website=The Sobey Art Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2018-01-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122073008/http://sobeyartfoundation.com/en/crombie-collection/the-group-of-seven/edwin-holgate/|archive-date=2018-01-22|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1954, he was one of eighteen Canadian artists commissioned by the [[Canadian Pacific Railway]] to paint a [[mural]] for the interior of one of the new [[Park series|Park cars]] entering service on the new ''[[Canadian (train)|Canadian]]'' transcontinental train. Each the murals depicted a different national or provincial park; Holgate's was [[Mont-Tremblant National Park]].<ref name="cr2004">{{cite journal | url=http://www.exporail.org/can_rail/Canadian%20Rail_no503_2004.pdf | title=The 50th Anniversary of the CPR Stainless Steel Passenger Fleet | journal=Canadian Rail | date=November–December 2004 | issue=503 | pages=211–223 | access-date=2015-02-07 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924005431/http://www.exporail.org/can_rail/Canadian%20Rail_no503_2004.pdf | archive-date=2015-09-24 | url-status=live }}</ref>
Holgate died in 1977 and buried at [[Mount Royal Cemetery]] in [[Montreal]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://thegroupofseven.ca/edwin-holgate/ |title=Group of Seven |access-date=2019-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190720012156/https://thegroupofseven.ca/edwin-holgate/ |archive-date=2019-07-20 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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