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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Walter Willard "Spud" Johnson was a poet and author of literary criticism, editorial comments and other prose who lived in New Mexico from 1922 to his death in 1968 and who was a major part of the new Mexico literary scene. He was also the publisher of Laughing Horse literary magazine, printed on a small hand press, which he started with others while a student at UC Berkeley and continued in New Mexico. In 1953 he took up painting and drawing as well. Photograph of Walter Willard "Spud" Johnson wearing a striped shirt and tie and a bib apron, and standing next to the wall of a Pueblo revival type building with an animal skull placed on top. Text from negative sleeve: Spud Johnson
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b&w acetate negative
Identifier
uclamss_893_0489 ark:/21198/zz002h2sgj
Subject
Authors--American--New Mexico--Santa Fe Authors--American--New Mexico--Taos Poets--New Mexico--Santa Fe Poets--New Mexico--Taos Artist colonies--New Mexico--Santa Fe Johnson, Walter Willard, 1897-1968
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