The Scientist as Artist

Paintings of William Henry Holmes


[Canyon] [Canyon Painting]

William Henry Holmes completed Panorama From Point Sublime< right, and his illustration of the valley of the Virgin River , left, during Clarence Dutton's 1879 survey of the Grand Canyon. Smithsonian Butte, named for a fancied resemblance to the Institution's Castle, rises in the background.


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