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Edgar Holloway

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Edgar Holloway

by Edgar Holloway
etching, 1932
8 3/4 in. x 6 1/4 in. (223 mm x 159 mm)
Given by Jennifer Holloway, 2010
Primary Collection
NPG 6893

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  • Edgar Holloway (1914-2008), Painter and print-maker. Sitter in 3 portraits, Artist or producer of 7 portraits.

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  • Edgar Holloway (1914-2008), Painter and print-maker. Artist or producer of 7 portraits, Sitter in 3 portraits.

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Between 1931 and 2002 Holloway made thirty-three etched self-portraits, more than any other British printmaker. The most widely re-produced, this portrait (his sixth) demonstrates his early technical virtuosity. In common with his other prints it is based on an original drawing from life. This etching first appeared in Studio magazine in 1934 and was shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in the same year.

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Current affairs

Sir Oswald Mosley forms the British Union of Fascists. Mosley's party - nicknamed the Black Shirts after their uniform - was founded along the lines of Mussolini's Fascist Party in Italy and called for the replacement of parliamentary democracy with a system of elected executives. During the war Mosley was interned and the BUF was proscribed.

Art and science

John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton 'split the atom'. In fact, Cockcroft and Walton's achievement was to change the nucleus of one element into another by bombarding it with protons, rather than to literally spit an atom apart. Nevertheless 'splitting the atom' has become the popular way of describing this important stage in the development of nuclear technology.

International

Saudi Arabia is formed by the unification of the Kingdoms of Hijaz and Nejd under King Abdul Aziz.
Iraq is granted independence from the British mandate established by the League of Nations in 1919-20.

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