Edwin Headley Holgate RCA (August 19, 1892 – May 21, 1977), was a Canadian painter, muralist, and printmaker.

He was known primarily as a portraitist and for his treatment of the female nude in an outdoor setting in a series of paintings and prints during the 1930s.

Holgate studied at the Art Association of Montreal with Alberta Cleland (beginning in 1905),[2] William Brymner (who also taught A. Y. Jackson), and later Maurice Cullen.

[3] He was travelling in Ukraine at the outset of World War I, and was forced to cross Asia to return to Canada.

[5] He taught wood engraving at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal from 1928 to 1934, then with Lilias Torrance Newton directed art classes at the museum from 1934 to 1936 and again, from 1938 to 1940.

[3] The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts organized a second retrospective in 2005, curated by Rosalind Pepall and Brian Foss.