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Stuart Cary Welch, an internationally renowned scholar, curator and collector of Islamic and Indian art who brought many of the masterworks of these traditions to the attention of the West, died on Aug. 13 while traveling in Hokkaido, Japan. He was 80 and lived in New Hampshire.

The cause was a heart attack, his family said. Mr. Welch's death was not announced publicly until this month.

At his death, Mr. Welch was curator emeritus of Islamic and Later Indian art at the Harvard Art Museum. From 1979 to 1987, he was also special consultant in charge of the department of Islamic art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Mr. Welch's accomplishments were all the more noteworthy because he was entirely self-taught.

Until the mid-1900s, Indian and Islamic art were largely ignored in the Western hemisphere. Museums and scholars interested in pre-20th-century painting tended to look reflexively toward Europe. Attention was paid to Japan and China, of course, but places like Persia, Turkey, the Middle East and India were considered dimly lighted outposts with little real significance in the history of art.

What Mr. Welch did was to train a bright light on these regions, writing, teaching, building museum collections and organizing exhibitions in the United States and elsewhere. He also amassed a vast, important collection of his own: besides paintings and drawings it included textiles, arms and armor and stone carvings. Over the years, he gave more than 300 works from his collection to Harvard.

Among the major exhibitions of which Mr. Welch was curator were ''The Art of Mughal India'' (1964) at the Asia Society in New York. It was the first important display in this country of artwork from the Mughal empire, a period of Muslim rule that flourished on the Indian subcontinent from 1526 to 1857.

For the Met, he presented ''India! Art and Culture: 1300-1900,'' which opened in 1985. Reviewing it in The New York Times, John Russell wrote, ''The best exhibitions are acts of love, and 'India!' is one of them.''

A skilled draftsman himself, Mr. Welch was noted in particular for his concern with Indian drawings, an especially neglected genre. He had, after all, acquired his first one at the age of 11.

Stuart Cary Welch Jr., known as Cary, was born in Buffalo on April 2, 1928. His maternal grandfather was the publisher of The Buffalo Times. His father, Stuart Cary Welch Sr., was an architect and the wing commander of the state civil air patrol. Visiting museums as a boy, Cary was captivated by the drawings of Indian masters. They could be had for next to nothing then, and he began to buy them with his allowance.

As an undergraduate at Harvard, Mr. Welch was dismayed to find no courses in Indian or Islamic art. So he taught himself, reading, studying and traveling. He earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Harvard in 1950, followed by graduate work there in classical art.

In 1956, Mr. Welch began his professional association with Harvard as honorary assistant keeper of Islamic Art at the Fogg Museum. As an instructor at Harvard, he helped develop one of the first curriculums at an American university for the study of Islamic art. He retired from the university in 1995.

Mr. Welch is survived by his wife, the former Adrienne Edith Iselin Gilbert, known as Edith; four children; and four grandchildren.

His books include ''Room for Wonder: Indian Painting During the British Period, 1760-1880'' (American Federation of Arts, 1978); ''Imperial Mughal Painting'' (Braziller, 1978); and, with Martin Bernard Dickson, ''The Houghton Shahnameh'' (Harvard University, 1981), a two-volume study of a lavishly illustrated manuscript of the Persian national epic poem.

For Mr. Welch, art seemed to suffuse every moment of his travels, as it did on one memorable visit to a teeming bazaar in India.

''Suddenly a man appeared for half a second who had a beautiful ax resting on his shoulder,'' he told The Times in 1985. ''It was a masterpiece, with complex geometric designs all over it. I was mad to get a picture of it, but in the next instant, the man disappeared in the crowd.''

He added: ''I still remember the ax vividly.''

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