[2] Elizabeth Gilmore was one of the first graduates from the International School Manila, while her father was serving as American vice-governor of the Philippine Islands.

[6] While in North Carolina, she opened a community arts center in Raleigh, under the auspices of the Works Projects Administration.

[11] In 1979, Elizabeth Gilmore Holt was named a Guggenheim Fellow;[12] she also received a Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, in 1982.

Elizabeth Gilmore Holt died in early 1987, age 81, in Washington, D.C.[14] Her papers are in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.

There is an Elizabeth Gilmore Holt Prize for Best Graduate Paper in Art History, awarded annually at Syracuse University.