Wanderlusters’+Rest,+The

Date: 1915
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1921/1921.6.2_1a.jpg?itok=6m3DlZTn width="366" height="279" link="@americanartmuseum/Wanderlusters’ Rest, The"]] || Title: **The Wanderlusters' Rest**

Artist: **William Henry Holmes** Born: Cadiz, Ohio 1846 Died: Royal Oak, Michigan 1933

Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 30 1/4 x 40 1/8 in. (76.7 x 101.9 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Dr. William Henry Holmes 1921.6.2

Accession: 1921.6.2 ||

In 1920, William Henry Holmes became the first director of the first National Gallery of Art, now the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He was an accomplished anthropologist, archaeologist, artist, and geologist. Holmes’s many talents made him indispensable on many archaeological expeditions to New Mexico, Arizona, Mexico, and South America.
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