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| Born in Morgantown, West Virginia, Walter Hough became an archaeologist and anthropologist who studied art in Washington D.C. with William Henry Holmes, who was a leader of the Hayden Expedition through Arizona in 1875. Hough became head curator of anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution.
Like Holmes, he had an early interest in the Southwest and sketched and painted desert landscapes, although it is unknown whether or not he visited that part of the country.
He exhibited at the Washington D.C. Water Color Club and the Cosmos Club. His work is held by the Museum of Northern Arizona at Flagstaff and by the Smithsonian Institution.
Sources:
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
Doris Dawdy, Artists of the American West, Vol. III
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