Robert Holmes 1861-1930

Robert Holmes spent a lifetime drawing and painting Canadian wildflowers, depicting many varieties in watercolours. Holmes was born in Cannington and is buried here. After studying at the Ontario School of Art and the Royal College of Art, his teaching career at Upper Canada College, the Central Ontario School of Art and Design, and its successor, the Ontario College of Art, spanned forty years. Holmes was a president of the Ontario Society of Artists, a founding member of important Toronto art organizations and an academician of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. The collections of the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario include notable wildflower watercolours by Holmes.

Robert Holmes passa sa vie à dessiner et à peindre des fleurs sauvages du Canada, illustrant de nombreuses variétés à l’aquarelle. Holmes naquit à Cannington et fut enterré ici. Il étudia à l’École d’art et de design de l’Ontario et au Royal College of Art, et sa carrière d’enseignant au Upper Canada College, à la Central Ontario School of Art and Design, rebaptisée l’École d’art et de design de l’Ontario, s’étendit sur 40 ans. Holmes fut un président de l’Ontario Society of Artists, un membre fondateur d’importants organismes voués aux arts de Toronto et un universitaire de l’Académie royale des arts du Canada. Les collections du Musée des beaux-arts du Canada et du Musée des beaux-arts de l’Ontario comprennent les remarquables aquarelles de fleurs sauvages de Holmes.