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William Henry Holmes

William Henry Holmes (1846 - 1933) was active/lived in District Of Columbia, Illinois.  William Holmes is known for Southwest survey artist, panoramic painting.

Born near Cadiz, Ohio, William Henry Holmes was a survey-field artist, who earned a reputation as a skilled panoramic landscape painter of the Grand Canyon.  He also did delicate watercolors in traditional style, and was a writer, archaeologist, teacher and illustrator.  He lived in Washington DC, Chicago and Royal Oak, Michigan.

Holmes was educated in the public schools of Georgetown, Ohio, and was a teacher until 1872.   He then moved to Washington D.C. where he studied art with Theodore Kaufmann, and did sketching of specimens for the Smithsonian Institution.  He also studied in Germany at the Munich Art Academy.

In 1872, succeeding Thomas Moran, he became field artist for the United States Geological Survey, called the Hayden Expedition, of what became Yellowstone Park. The leader was Ferdinand Hayden, and from him, Holmes learned about much about geology.  Holmes was with Hayden in 1874 on a Colorado survey, and in 1875, led the survey p   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3478 characters.]  Artist bio

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