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Kay WalkingStick (born March 2, 1935) is an American landscape artist. 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 artists 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. The National Museum of American Indian will present a retrospective "Kay WalkingStick, An American Artist", November 2015 through August 2016, with a comprehensive catalog. ==Personal life== Kay WalkingStick was born in Syracuse, New York, on March 2, 1935,〔Phoebe Farris. ''(Women Artists of Color: A Bio-critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas )''. Greenwood Publishing Group; 1 January 1999. ISBN 978-0-313-30374-6. p. 108.〕〔Delia Gaze. "Chapter W: Kay WalkingStick." in ''(Concise Dictionary of Women Artists )''. Routledge; 3 April 2013. ISBN 978-1-136-59901-9.〕 the daughter of S. Ralph WalkingStick and Emma McKaig WalkingStick.〔 Emma was of Scottish-Irish heritage, and Kay's father, Ralph, was a member of the Cherokee Nation who wrote and spoke the Cherokee language.〔〔 Ralph was born in the Cherokee Nation capital of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and attended Dartmouth College.〔"The Indian History of an American Institution/Native Americans at Dartmouth" by Colin G. Calloway. Dartmouth College Press Hanover, N.H. 2010 pgs. 134, 141-43, 161.〕 Kay's parents had four other children, and as they raised their family Ralph WalkingStick worked in the oil fields as a geologist. He became an alcoholic. While pregnant with Kay, her mother left Oklahoma with their other children and moved to Syracuse, New York. WalkingStick grew up in Syracuse without having experienced the cultural heritage of her Cherokee ancestors. Her siblings, who spent some of their childhood in Oklahoma, had a better understanding of their father's Cherokee traditions.〔Liz Sonneborn. ''(A to Z of American Indian Women )''. Infobase Publishing; 1 January 2007. ISBN 978-1-4381-0788-2. p. 260.〕〔Phoebe Farris. ''(Women Artists of Color: A Bio-critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas )''. Greenwood Publishing Group; 1 January 1999. ISBN 978-0-313-30374-6. p. 114.〕 Her mother told her "Indian stories" and talked about her handsome father. The family was proud to be Native Americans. Kay liked to color and draw from a young age.〔 A number of other members of her family were artists. WalkingStick married R. Michael Echols in 1959, and they had two children, Michael David Echols and Erica WalkingStick Echols Lowry. Michael Echols died in 1989.〔〔(Kay WalkingStick. ) Arcadia University. Retrieved January 13, 2014.〕 She is now married to artist Dirk Bach. 〔 They married in November 2013 and live in Easton, Pennsylvania. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kay WalkingStick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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