Artist Edwin Headley Holgate
Title The Old Loom
Media wood engraving on paper
Dated
1927
Size 3.75 x 4 in. / 9.5 x 10.2 cm.
Frame Size 12 x 11 x 1 in.
Sold $350
Estimate $400 - $600
Notes
signed with initials in block lower left; framed with archival mat
Reference
illustration for Other Days Other Ways, by Georges Bouchard, published by Louis Carrier & Co. 1928; illustrated in The Prints of Edwin Holgate, by Ian Thom, cat. #32; illustrated in Canadian Art Volume 2, published by National Gallery of Canada
Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Edwin Headley Holgate ~ [1892-1977] Canadian CGP, CSGA, RCA
see Edwin H. Holgate, by D.Reid, N.G.C., 1976 and The Prints of Edwin Holgate, by I.Thom, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1989 for catalogue of the artist's prints; Edwin Holgate, by R.Pepall, MMFA, 2005; biography and other examples in N.G.C. Vol.2, G-K, ed.C.Hill, pg.133; Printmaking in Quebec, 1900-1950, by D.Martin, pg.96, Musee du Quebec, 1988; Images of the Land, 1919-1945, by P.Ainslie, pg.62