Robert M. Holley [SEP] date of death
Robert M. Holley
Robert M. Holley (1913-1977) was a well-known U.S. cartoonist, commercial artist, and advertising executive.
Career.
A native of Oklahoma, Holley dropped out of college in Florida at the age of 19, and a year later took his new wife to New York City (NYC) in the worst days of the Depression. Once there he studied at the Art Students League of New York (1933–36) and the George Pearse Ennis School of Painting (1933). Within
has been claimed as 10 Aug 1874, however the date of 16 Sep 1866 is evidenced by his official birth record. He was educated to elementary level at Bourke, where his family moved after his father's alleged death when Stuart-Robertson was 4 years old. Despite the rumour that Robert senior had died during the 1870s in Queensland, Robert senior died on 3 July 1899 at George Street Asylum, Parramatta, New South Wales.
Stuart-Robertson undertook a number of unsuccessful retail businesses in Bourke and Cobar. During