Canadian Sculptures' Society

Elizabeth Holbrook

Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook was born in 1913 in Hamilton, Ontario. She has worked exclusively as a sculptor for over forty years. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art, she has exhibited widely in Canada and Europe. In 1949 she won the National Sculpture Society of New York Gold Medal for Portraiture. In 1974 the Art Gallery of Hamilton held a solo retrospective of her work. She is represented in the collections of the Gallery of the Parliament Buldings, Ottawa, the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, McMaster University, and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. A medalist of renown, Holbrook is a member of the RCA, OSA and SSC.
Holbrook is best known for her fine bronze busts, figures and medallic portraits of numerous Canadians and illustrious contemporaries such as Albert Einstein and Henry Moore. She has also produced magnificent war memorials, plaques, altar frontals, fountains, animal figures and other sculptures in bronze and stone.
The Elizabeth Holbrook Scholarship was established in 1979 to be awarded annually to students graduating from the Ontario College of Art and Design.

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Media: bronze, wood, clay

SSC Member Since: 1952