Edgar Holloway was born in Yorkshire in 1914, the son of a coalminer turned printseller. He had his first exhibition at the Twenty-One Gallery in 1931 which specialized in promoting the new wave of etchers influenced by Samuel Palmer, Graham Sutherland, Paul Drury and Robin Tanner among others. Collections of his etchings and drawings are widely held in public galleries and museums throughout the United Kingdom and abroad.
Ref: Robert Meyrick; The etchings and engravings of Edgar Holloway; Scolar Press 1996.