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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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