William Henry Holmes Enter a
feeling, not
a gallery.
Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
William Henry Holmes
Early Life and Education Born: Harrison County, United States of America (1846) Died: 1933 William Henry Holmes was born on a farm near Cadiz, in Harrison County, Ohio, to Joseph and Mary Heberling Holmes on December 1, 1846. He graduated from the McNeely Normal School, Hopedale, Ohio in 1870. Briefly taught drawing, painting, natural history, and geology at the school. Received an honorary A.B. (Bachelor of Arts) degree fr
om the school in 1889. Received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from The George Washington University in 1918. Career as Artist, Illustrator and Geologist In 1871, he went to Washington, D.C., to study art under Theodore Kaufmann. Employed by the Smithsonian Institution drawing and sketching fossil shells and shells of live mollusks. Became an artist/topographer with the government survey of Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden i…