Walter Howato Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1921 - d. 2003

Walter Howato was a Hopi artist from the First Mesa village of Sitcom'ovi, a member of the Reed Clan who carved actively from the 1940s until his death in 2003. He also worked for Walt Disney in Los Angeles and helped build the Glen Canyon Dam. He experimented with many combinations of paints to match the older style of katsina dolls he remembered from his childhood, and mixed his pigments with a white clay called tumma. He built up multiple layers of paint over clay, creating an aged appearance in his dolls.