Kay WalkingStick

Kay WalkingStick is a Native American landscape artist and a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Her later landscape paintings, executed in oil paint on wood panels often include patterns based on American Indian rugs, pottery, and other artifacts. Her works are in the collections of many universities and museums, like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Israel Museum, the National Museum of Canada, and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. She is an author and was a professor in the art department at Cornell University where she taught painting and drawing. She has been accepted into many artist residency programs, which gave her time away from teaching duties to paint. WalkingStick is the winner of many awards and in 1995 was included in H.W. Janson's History of Art, a standard textbook used by university art departments.