Josh Holland

Throughout his life, Josh Holland balanced his artistic practice with his career as a meteorologist. He began painting as a youth in Chicago, attending classes at the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC). He received a BA in mathematics at the University of Chicago and then a PhD in atmospheric sciences from the University of Washington. Throughout, his sketchbook was always with him, and he took two years in the late 1940s to study again at the AIC. Holland arrived in Washington in 1953, where he worked for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and then taught at the University of Maryland. Later in life, he focused more on his art, creating sketches and paintings of life in DC, as well as self-portraits and landscapes, out of his Takoma Park and Logan Circle studios.