Walkingstick, Kay

Variant names
Dates:
Birth 1935-03-02
Americans
English

Biographical notes:

Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee) was born in 1935. An artist and professor of Art at Cornell University. She was the first Native American artist represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art's permanent collection and was included in Jansen's History of Art, fifth edition. Her style combines elements of Neo-Expressionism and Neo-Abstraction in her work. WalkingStick is represented in the Heard Museum's permanent collection. See her file in the Native American Artists Resource Collection in the Museum Library.

From the description of Kay WalkingStick : Artist-in-Residence Program records, 1994-1995. (The Heard Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 56970791

Interviewee Kay WalkingStick (1935- ) is a painter and professor in Jackson Heights, N.Y. Interviewer Mija Riedel (1958- ) is an independent scholar in San Francisco, Calif.

From the description of Oral history interview with Kay WalkingStick 2011 Dec. 14-15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477716

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Subjects:

  • Art, Modern
  • Art, American
  • Cherokee artists
  • Conceptual art
  • Indian art
  • Indian artists
  • Painters
  • Women artists
  • Women painters

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  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • New York (State)--New York (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)