Hobart and William Smith Colleges

30 August 2005 Holchs designs, gallery profiled

The Holch Gallery in Nantucket, Mass., run by Eric Holch '70 and the designer himself were profiled in the July 2005 issue of Nantucket Today. The magazine is published five times a year by The Inquirer and Mirror, a weekly newspaper on the island.

The story describes his short walk from home to work, his Alerion sloop, Owl, designed in 1912 as a day-sailer; and his drawings, paintings, posters, notecards, boxers and neckties.

I paint so I can sail, he told reporter Joel Silverstein. His work was featured in several Japanese galleries from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, when that country was obsessed with anything American, he said.

Holch grew up in Andover, Mass., and then Greenwich, Conn.; his parents owned a home on Nantucket in the 1950s. He and his wife, Betsy, met on the HWS campus. They are the parents of two adult children.