Mexborough artist’s work on show

THE work of a Mexborough-born artist who created a portrait of poet TS Eliot is on show until this weekend.

More than 100 works by Edgar Holloway are on show at Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery until Saturday (14).

The centenary exhibition – called Edgar Holloway: The Art of a Lifetime – includes watercolours, drawings, etchings and engravings.

Edgar Holloway – regarded by some as Doncaster’s greatest artist – was born in May 1914 in Mexborough.

He was the son of a picture framer and left school at 14 to pursue watercolouring and etching.

By the age of 20, he had staged successful exhibitions and created portraits of such famous people as literary greats Stephen Spender, Herbert Read and TS Eliot.

In 1933, he moved from London back to Doncaster before moving back to the capital a year later.

He travelled widely across England, Scotland, Wales and Europe with close friend, painter and printmaker William Wilson.

During his lifetime, Holloway created more etched self portraits than any other British printmaker.