Asked for his proudest moments since opening his eponymous gallery in 2013, Frederick Holmes has plenty of illustrious accomplishments to point to. (Being the first modern gallerist to show works by Walter Quirt, an American surrealist painter and contemporary of Jackson Pollock who was once lost to history, comes to mind.)
But it’s the moments others have had at the gallery that Holmes feels especially eager to share: the young woman who saved for years to purchase a sculpture she saw when he first opened his doors (and became a ceramics instructor herself in the meantime). The artist who’d been painting since the 1960s but
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