Linda Holt

"Large Horizontal Abstraction, with Orange, Yellow, Turquoise, Green, and Red"

2017

Linda Holt was raised in Philadelphia and lived in England, Alabama and Virginia, before attending the Paris American High School and graduating from Skidmore College with a BS in fine art in 1970. She received an MFA in painting from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied with Neil Welliver. Holt’s paintings have been seen in 19 one-person exhibitions, in over 50 group exhibitions and in addition to numerous private collections works are included in many public collections, including the Wichita Center for the Arts, Wellington Management, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Fidelity Investments, Mass General Hospital and the Seaport and Reef Hotels. Selected reviews include articles in The Boston Globe, Art New England, and the Houston Chronicle. Holt was awarded the Nathaniel Saltonstall Purchase Prize in Drawing, has been a Trustee and Visiting Artist at Montserrat College, a Guest Critic at FIT in New York and a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. Holt resides in Boston and has been represented by the Beth Urdang Gallery since 1995.