(1886–1980) His father Walter Otho Hinton[1] was a well-traveled man, a linguist with an extraordinary memory who worked for the San Francisco Chronicle, possibly as a compositor.
His mother, Mary Washburn Haskell Hinton, had strong artistic abilities.
Hinton credited his own excellent visual memory to a combination of his parents’ talents.
As a youth he saw a production of Buffalo Bill's Congress of Rough Riders of the World show – probably the one installed adjacent to the Exposition – which nourished his love of the Western pioneer and Native American cultures.
[2] In 1988, a young new CEO named Robert Newman stumbled upon 24 paintings stashed in a storeroom at the company's headquarters.