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ARTIST
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Ralph
Holmes (1876 - 1963)
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TITLE
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Landscape with Monumental Rock
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DATE OF CREATION
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MEDIUM
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Oil on canvas
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UNFRAMED DIMENSIONS
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20-1/4" x 18"
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FRAME
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COMMENTS
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Ralph Holmes
was born in La Grange, Illinois. He studied at Northwestern
University, the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as in Paris.
Later he served on the faculty of the Art Institute of Chicago and was the
Chair of the Department of Painting and Decorating at the Carnegie
Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. He was a mural painter
in Pittsburgh and New York, was known as a writer, and after moving to
California he had a long teaching and painting career there. He
taught at the Otis Art Institute from 1923 to 1948 and served as art
editor and writer for E.G. Lewis's Illustrated Review. He was
a four-term President of the California Art Club, was president of
"Art in National Defense", and a member of the Academy of
Western Painters. For twenty-five years he was also art instructor
at the Marlborough School for girls. He died in San Luis Obispo in
1963.
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