Robert Meyrick
Lund Humphries
Limited Edition
112
1996
Holloway was born in Yorkshire in 1914. Entirely self-taught he made his first etching at the age of 15. It was a time of great family hardship and his earliest prints of popular landscape subjects in Yorkshire Lincolnshire Essex and Middlesex were sold through his father s shop to supplement the family income. Encouraged by Campbell Dodgson and Muirhead Bone Holloway had his first one-man show in London at the early age of 17. His portraits won particular acclaim and T.S. Eliot Stephen Spender and Herbert Read were among many who sat for the artist. In 1949 he joined the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic on Ditchling Common in East Sussex. The waning popularity of etchings in the late 1930s prompted him to focus on lettering and graphic design but he returned to etching in 1969 and a major commission to produce an extensive series of etchings of American landmarks followed. His work is well represented in public collections and has recently been celebrated with a number of retrospective exhibitions including one at the Ashmolean Museum Oxford.
Lund Humphries
Limited Edition
112
1996
Holloway was born in Yorkshire in 1914. Entirely self-taught he made his first etching at the age of 15. It was a time of great family hardship and his earliest prints of popular landscape subjects in Yorkshire Lincolnshire Essex and Middlesex were sold through his father s shop to supplement the family income. Encouraged by Campbell Dodgson and Muirhead Bone Holloway had his first one-man show in London at the early age of 17. His portraits won particular acclaim and T.S. Eliot Stephen Spender and Herbert Read were among many who sat for the artist. In 1949 he joined the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic on Ditchling Common in East Sussex. The waning popularity of etchings in the late 1930s prompted him to focus on lettering and graphic design but he returned to etching in 1969 and a major commission to produce an extensive series of etchings of American landmarks followed. His work is well represented in public collections and has recently been celebrated with a number of retrospective exhibitions including one at the Ashmolean Museum Oxford.