Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook
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Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook, C.M., O.Ont., LL.D., R.C.A., OSA, SSC, CPA, FOCAD, NSSNY. (b. 1913) is regarded as one of Canada’s finest portrait sculptors, her career has spanned over seven decades.
Born in Hamilton, Ontario, the great-great-grand-daughter of John Willson, she was a student of the eminent sculptor Emanual Hahn. Holbrook studied at the Ontario College of Art, Royal College of Art, England and at Cranbrook in the studio of Carl Milles.
A recipient of the Lieut. Governor’s Medal, 1935; National Sculpture Society of New York, Gold Medal, 1969 and the Canadian Portrait Academy Cleeve Horne Award - Best Portrait Sculpture, 1998; Holbrook’s sculptures are among some of the very best that Canada has known. In 1995, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada and was awarded the Order of Ontario in 1997.
Her celebrated statue of George Bernard Shaw, 1997 located at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario attests to this contribution. Holbrook’s portrait sculptures are represented in over 50 important public collections worldwide.
She was mentor to noted Canadian artist Christian Cardell Corbet.
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- Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry. University of Toronto Press. Retrieved on June 14, 2006.
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