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Mary Louise Holt has a diverse background in many areas of art through 23 years of professional experience. She was an honors graduate of the College of Mount Saint Joseph with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She started her career as a graphic designer and illustrator. For many years she often worked as a courtroom artist producing color renderings for local and national television. With extensive formal training in the academic tradition of fine portraiture, she has painted many portraits on commission for private collectors.
Using her skills in design and illustration she worked as an exhibit designer for the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History. After the museum she worked independently to create exhibits for nature centers, and other scientific institutions involved in environmental education or natural history. Her exhibits often included intricate illustrations or murals depicting Native Americans or subjects from the natural world. One of her exhibits, Charles Darwin - A Portrait Biography, was a featured exhibit for two years in Charles Darwin's home in Downe, England. Her exhibits have been displayed throughout the United States and abroad.
In 2004 she won a national scholarship from the Susan K. Black Foundation. She is also a juried member of Oil Painters of America, Artists for Conservation, and a founding member of Masterworks for Nature.
Mary Louise Holt`s many years of experience working in the field of natural history has inspired her to re-create on canvas the American frontier east of the Mississippi River. This series of paintings depict compelling images of the landscape, wildlife and the Eastern Woodland Indians that once thrived in this vast wilderness before European settlement tamed and transformed it forever.
Mary Louise Holt`s work can be found in corporate and private collections in the United States and Europe.
Using her skills in design and illustration she worked as an exhibit designer for the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History. After the museum she worked independently to create exhibits for nature centers, and other scientific institutions involved in environmental education or natural history. Her exhibits often included intricate illustrations or murals depicting Native Americans or subjects from the natural world. One of her exhibits, Charles Darwin - A Portrait Biography, was a featured exhibit for two years in Charles Darwin's home in Downe, England. Her exhibits have been displayed throughout the United States and abroad.
In 2004 she won a national scholarship from the Susan K. Black Foundation. She is also a juried member of Oil Painters of America, Artists for Conservation, and a founding member of Masterworks for Nature.
Mary Louise Holt`s many years of experience working in the field of natural history has inspired her to re-create on canvas the American frontier east of the Mississippi River. This series of paintings depict compelling images of the landscape, wildlife and the Eastern Woodland Indians that once thrived in this vast wilderness before European settlement tamed and transformed it forever.
Mary Louise Holt`s work can be found in corporate and private collections in the United States and Europe.
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