Holman's Print Shop

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role

Dealer/Gallery

dates

1870-1977

city

Boston

state

MA

sex

n/a

historical notes

Holman, Louis A. (Louis Arthur), 1866-1939.
Illustrator, art editor, and print dealer; Boston, Mass.

Holman was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, and began work in the bookselling and publishing business in Canada. He moved to Boston in 1889, where he attended Cowles Art School and studied with the painter Charles Woodbury. Holman traveled extensively and contributed illustrations and articles to various popular magazines and worked as art editor of New England Magazine and the Youth's Companion. In 1915, he established a print department at Goodspeed's Book Shop, leaving in 1930 to open his own firm, Holman's Print Shop, where he was joined by his son, Richard Bourne Holman, who ran the firm after Louis' death in 1939 until 1977.

decades
of activity

1910-1920
1920-1930
1930-1940
1940-1950
1950-1960
1960-1970
1970-1980

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Archives/Repository	Collection Title	Collection Details
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Louis A. Holman papers and Holman's Print Shop records, ca. 1870-1977.	see details...