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An example of work by Vivian Nicholas Holbrook
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| The following biography courtesy of Michael R. Perez:
Holbrook studied art at Yale University where she received her
Bachelors in Fine Arts Degree. It appears that Holbrook developed
a love for the Modernist style of painting early in her life that
influenced her work dramatically throughout her life. Her
preferred media was oil paintings and ink drawings.
Her love of art led her to a career in both teaching and
administration. One of her first assignments was at the Colby
Junior College in New London, New Hampshire as an art instructor.
After moving to Gainesville, Florida she taught at the University of
Florida from 1942 to 1944, and later, at the nearby Center of Modern
Art in Micanopy, Florida from 1969 to 1970, where she became Director
of Art. In 1970 she designed exhibitions at the Florida State
University during that summer.
She was married to acclaimed artist Hollis Howard Holbrook (1909-1984) and
it is believed she met him at Yale University in the early 1930s.
Although Hollis's career was more centered around WPA and commissioned
works, they did share the love of teaching art; some of their teaching
assignments coincided at the same institutions.
She was known to have exhibited at the Butler Institute of Art in 1952,
at the Patronato Belles Artes y Museum Nacional, Havana, Cuba in 1956,
at the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, South Carolina in 1959, at
the Purdue Small Painting Show, Lafayette, Indiana in 1964, and at the
Ball State University Annual Exhibition, Muncie, Indiana in 1972.
Holbrook won Second Award at the Harry Rich Competition in Miami,
Florida in 1957, and Top Award in 1958, and the Atwater Kent Award at
the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, Florida in
1966.
Her work is represented at the Georgia Museum of Art located at the
University of Georgia, as well as many other prestigious public and
private collections.
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