Walkingstick, Kay

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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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referencedIn WalkingStick, Kay : [miscellaneous ephemeral material]. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library
creatorOf WALKINGSTICK, KAY. Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
creatorOf WalkingStick, Kay. Kay WalkingStick collection. The Heard Museum Library
creatorOf WalkingStick, Kay. Artist file. Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives
referencedIn Native American Arts Alliance. Native American Arts Alliance records, circa 1997-2003. Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
creatorOf WalkingStick, Kay, 1935. [Kay WalkingStick: artist file] Philbrook Museum of Art, Chapman Library
referencedIn Visual Power: 21st Century Native American Artists/Intellectuals poster collection National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center
creatorOf WalkingStick, Kay. Kay WalkingStick : Artist-in-Residence Program records, 1994-1995. The Heard Museum Library
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creatorOf Oral history interview with Kay WalkingStick Archives of American Art
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associatedWith Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America. corporateBody
associatedWith Native American Arts Alliance. corporateBody
associatedWith Riedel, Mija, 1958- person
associatedWith The Philbrook Museum of Art. corporateBody
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United States
New York (State)--New York
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Art, Modern
Art, American
Cherokee artists
Conceptual art
Indian art
Indian artists
Painters
Women artists
Women painters
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Birth 1935-03-02

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