Born: 2 March 1935, United States
Died: NA
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
The following is republished from the Library of Congress. This piece falls under under public domain, as copyright does not apply to “any work of the U.S. Government” where “a work prepared by an officer or employee of the U.S. Government as part of that person’s official duties” (See, 17 U.S.C. §§ 101, 105).
The symbolic power of landscape has been a common theme in the work of New York-based artist Kay WalkingStick. A member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, WalkingStick remarks: “I view myself as an Indian woman who is part white. But I would hope that these works elicit a response in the viewer that is deeper than racial or cultural differences. . . .” WalkingStick has been painting and teaching since the 1950s and is best-known for her richly colored and densely layered diptych paintings that reference natural forms.