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{{Short description|Canadian artist (1892–1977)}}
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'''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=
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=June 1, 2014
Holgate's first exhibition was held at the Arts Club of Montreal in 1922. In 1933,
Holgate was said by [[A. Y. Jackson]] to be the instigator of the [[Beaver Hall Group]], of which he was a member, in 1920.<ref name="foss">{{cite web |last1=Foss |first1=Brian |title="Living Landscape". Edwin Holgate |date=2005 |website=librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca |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=May 8, 2021
Holgate worked as an official Canadian [[war artist]] with the [[Royal Canadian Air Force]] 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>{{
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 web |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1188229/ |title=Lifeworks: A late modernist |last=Sibbald |first=Barbara |date=August 16, 2005 |website=ncbi.nlm.nih.gov |publisher=National Library of Medicine |access-date=December 3, 2023}}</ref>
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