| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
207 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm |
| Note |
Published in conjunction with the exhibition held Nov. 7, 2015-Sept. 18, 2016 at the National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC. Exhibition travels to Dayton Art Institute, Dayton Ohio, Montclair Art Museum in Montclair, N.J. and two additional venues in 2017. |
| Summary |
"Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist is the companion catalogue to the exhibition, opening at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., in November 2015. Kay WalkingStick (b. 1935) is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation and one of the world's most celebrated artists of Native American ancestry. This volume includes essays by leading scholars and historians, arranged chronologically to guide readers through WalkingStick's life journey and rich artistic career, tracing a path of constant invention, innovation, and evolving artistic and personal growth through visually brilliant and evocative works of art"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-191) and index. |
| Contents |
A life / Kathleen Ash-Milby -- Spring 1974 / Erica Walkingstick Echols Lowry -- What lies beneath: sacred geometries, 1970-83 / Kate Morris -- Paintings always led the way: materials and process / Kay WalkingStick -- Stereo view: Kay WalkingStick's Diptychs / David W. Penney -- Landscape, the living symthesis of human presence and place / Robert Houle -- On being Cherokee / Margaret Archuleta -- Howitzer Hill fusillade, a personal perspective / Miles R. Miller. |
| Subject |
WalkingStick, Kay -- Exhibitions.
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Indian painters -- United States -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Indian painters -- United States -- 21st century -- Exhibitions.
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| Local Subject |
Indian painters -- United States -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Indian painters -- United States -- 21st century -- Exhibitions.
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| Subject |
WalkingStick, Kay.
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ART -- General.
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ART -- Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions -- General.
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ART -- Native American.
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WalkingStick, Kay. (OCoLC)fst00283356
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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Exhibition catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01424028
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Exhibition catalogs.
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| Added Author |
Ash-Milby, Kathleen E., editor.
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Penney, David W., editor.
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National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.), organizer, host institution.
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Dayton Art Institute.
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Montclair Art Museum.
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| Added Title |
Paintings. Selections
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| ISBN |
9781588345103 (hardback) |
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1588345106 (hardback) |
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