1. Edwin Holgate 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.
12 Facts About Edwin Holgate
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Edwin Holgate was born in Allandale, Ontario, Canada, the son of Bessie Bell and Henry Edwin Holgate.
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Edwin Holgate's family moved to Jamaica in 1895 where his father worked as an engineer.
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Edwin Holgate was travelling in Ukraine at the outset of World War I, and was forced to cross Asia to return to Canada.
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Edwin Holgate enlisted in 1916 and returned to France with the Canadian Army.
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Edwin Holgate taught wood engraving at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Montreal 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.
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Edwin Holgate resigned in 1945 but was reinstated in 1953.
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Edwin Holgate was a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters.
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Edwin Holgate worked as an official Canadian war artist with the Royal Canadian Air Force in England during World War II.
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Edwin Holgate left Montreal to live in the Laurentians in 1946.
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Each the murals depicted a different national or provincial park; Edwin Holgate's was Mont-Tremblant National Park.
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Edwin Holgate died in 1977 and was buried at Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal.