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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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