| LC control no. | n 80034324 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Holm, Bill, 1925-2020 |
| Variant(s) | Holm, Bill, 1925- Holm, Oscar William, Jr., 1925-2020 |
| Other standard no. | 109555298 0000000084068256 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Seattle (Wash.) |
| Birth date | 1925-03-24 |
| Death date | 2020-12-16 |
| Place of birth | Roundup (Mont.) |
| Field of activity | Indian art--Northwest Coast of North America Northwest Coast Native American styles Wood-carving Painting |
| Affiliation | University of Washington Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum |
| Profession or occupation | Artists Wood carvers Painters Art historians High school teachers College teachers Natural history museum curators University and college faculty members |
| Found in | His Northwest coast Indian art, 1965. HistoryLink website, December 7, 2018: Holm, Bill (b. 1925) (Bill Holm is curator emeritus of Northwest Indian art at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle, a professor emeritus of art and anthropology at the University of Washington, and one of world's leading authorities on Northwest Coast Indian art; born Oscar William Holm Jr. on March 24, 1925, in Roundup, Montana. He moved to Seattle with his family in 1937; entered the University of Washington under the G.I. Bill in January 1946; graduated magna cum laude in 1949 with a degree in painting and then went on to earn his Master's of Fine Arts in painting from UW in 1951, and a teaching certificate in 1953. He taught art at Lincoln High School and began doing a systematic study of Northwest Coast art. He was hired in 1968 to be a curator at the Burke Museum and a lecturer at the university. He became an expert carver of masks and totem poles. He is also a painter, a discipline he returned to after his retirement from the museum and university in 1985) <http://www.historylink.org/File/10397> Wikipedia, December 7, 2018: Bill Holm (art historian) (born 1925 in Roundup, Montana; U.S. artist, author and art historian specializing in the visual arts of Northwest Coast Native Americans as well as a practitioner and teacher of the Northwest Coast art style); July 6, 2021 (died December 16, 2020) |
| Associated language | eng |
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