Edwin Holgate

Edwin Holgate
Edwin Holgate, 1930
Born	Edwin Headley Holgate (1892-08-19)August 19, 1892 Allandale, Ontario, Canada
Died	May 21, 1977(1977-05-21) (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)

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.