Stuart Cary Welch Jr. (2 April 1928 – 13 August 2008) was an American scholar and curator of Indian and Islamic art.
His maternal grandfather, Norman Edward Mack, was publisher of The Buffalo Times.
Because they offered no Indian or Islamic art courses at the time, he became an autodidact.
His first paid position at Harvard was in 1956, as honorary assistant keeper of Islamic Art at the Fogg Museum.
[2] A resident of New Hampshire, Welch died of a heart attack while traveling in Hokkaido, Japan.