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.
Interior view of a bedroom in the Pueblo Revival Style home of Carlos Vierra, with a ceiling of massive wooden beams and furnished with a chair, a bed and an area rug, and with a fireplace in the corner.