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Edward Stratton Holloway
(1859–1939)
Fishermen Unloading Their Boats
Oil on canvas, 30 × 50 1/4 inches
Signed at lower left: “Edw. Stratton Holloway”
Edward Stratton Holloway was born in Ashland, Greene County, New York. He
settled in Philadelphia and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
where he exhibited sporadically between 1881 and 1905. He worked as an art
director for the publisher J. B. Lippincott Co. for forty-six years and wrote
a number of books on interior design and antique furniture. Holloway also exhibited
at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1897 and 1904 and at the National Academy
of Design in 1888. He was awarded a bronze medal at the St. Louis Exposition
in 1904.
Although there is no definitive evidence that Fishermen Unloading Their
Boats represents a place in New Jersey, the site greatly resembles
places on the South Shore where Holloway is known to have been active. He
exhibited a Morning on the New Jersey Coast at the annual exhibition
of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1887 and a Wildwood Beach at
the annual exhibition in 1892 (both unlocated).
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