Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal
Private Collection, Montreal
Literature
Rosalind Pepall & Brian Foss, “Edwin Holgate”, Montreal, 2005, page 70, similar work illustrated page 58
By the early 1930s, Canada saw a revival of interest in wood engraving. Edwin Holgate, a talented painter, illustrator and muralist, taught the subject of woodblock printing at the École des beaux-arts until 1934 and continued to create his own prints throughout that period.
During the summer of 1926, Edwin Holgate visited the Skeena in B.C. with Marius Barbeau and A.Y. Jackson, creating a series of works from “Totem Poles, No. 1” to “Totem Poles, No. 5”.
