William Henry Holmes
- Creator:
- Harris & Ewing Photographers
- Title:
- William Henry Holmes
- Date:
- c. 1915
- Notes:
- This portrait of himself has been signed by Holmes. Original Neg. No. is SA-687
- Summary:
- William Henry Holmes, 1846-1933, was an artist, geologist, and anthropologist. A "Renaissance man" of many talents, Holmes was hired by the Smithsonian as an illustrator in 1871, traveling out west on the famed Yellowstone expeditions. Fascinated by the Native American culture he observed out West, in 1889 he joined the staff of the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, and directed it from 1902 to 1909. Holmes was also curator of anthropology for the Smithsonian (1897-1932), but never lost his interest in art, and also served as curator and director of the emerging National Gallery of Art (1906-1932), now the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He was known for his landscape paintings of the Washington, D.C., area
- Restrictions:
- For permission to reproduce or publish, contact osiaref@si.edu or call 202-633-5870. To order reproductions, call 202-633-1933 or contact photos@si.edu
- Topics:
- Art museum directors, Artists, Portraits, Anthropologists, Archaeologists
- Subjects:
- Holmes, William Henry 1846-1933, National Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian, Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, National Museum of American Art (U.S.), National Collection of Fine Arts, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Anthropology, Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Category:
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Form/Genre:
- Photographic print
- Local Number:
- SIA2008-3014
- Physical Description:
- Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Photographic print
- Full Record:
- http://siris-sihistory.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!sichronology&uri=full=3100001~!6074~!0#focus
