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Culture/People:

Diné (Navajo)  Search this

Artist/Maker:

Emmi Whitehorse, Diné (Navajo), b. 1956  Search this

Seller:

Emmi Whitehorse, Diné (Navajo), b. 1956  Search this

Presenter/funding source:

Dr. Marian K. Jacobs (Miriam Klebaner Jacobs), Non-Indian  Search this

Honoree:

Dr. Myron S. Jacobs, Non-Indian, 1922-1997  Search this

Title:

Standing Water

Object Name:

Painting

Media/Materials:

Cotton canvas, paper, oil paint

Techniques:

Laminated, painted

Dimensions:

100 x 129.5 cm

Object Type:

Painting/Drawing/Print

Place:

Santa Fe; Santa Fe County; New Mexico; USA

Date created:

February 2002

Catalog Number:

26/5557

Barcode:

265557.000

See related items:

Diné (Navajo)

Painting/Drawing/Print

Data Source:

National Museum of the American Indian

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6092e0ff0-6eeb-4a03-a8f7-0f6a95e8ca06

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:NMAI_281784

Interviewee:

WalkingStick, Kay, 1935-  Search this

Interviewer:

Riedel, Mija, 1958-  Search this

Subject:

Bach, Dirk  Search this

Echols, Michael  Search this

Folwell-Turipa, Jody  Search this

Hartley, Marsden  Search this

Joseph (Nez Percé Chief)  Search this

Longfish, George C.  Search this

McKaig, Margaret Emma  Search this

McKaig, Murray Peterson  Search this

Penny, David, (Illustrator)  Search this

Sakiestewa, Ramona  Search this

Smith, Jaune Quick-to-See  Search this

Spruance, Benton  Search this

Urdang, Bertha  Search this

WalkingStick, Charles  Search this

WalkingStick, Sinom Ralph  Search this

WalkingStick, Simon Ridge  Search this

Whitehorse, Emmi  Search this

Bryn Mawr College  Search this

Cannabis Gallery  Search this

Danforth Foundation (Saint Louis, Mo.)  Search this

Edward F. Albee Foundation  Search this

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

United States. Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes  Search this

Wenger Gallery  Search this

Type:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sketchbooks

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Kay WalkingStick, 2011 December 14-15. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Cherokee artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Catholicism  Search this

Christianity  Search this

Feminism and art  Search this

Painting  Search this

Photography  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Native American  Search this

Native American artists  Search this

Theme:

Women  Search this

Native American  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)16019

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)306089

AAA_collcode_walkin11

Theme:

Women

Native American

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_306089

Interviewee:

WalkingStick, Kay  Search this

Interviewer:

Riedel, Mija, 1958-  Search this

Creator:

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Names:

Bryn Mawr College  Search this

Cannabis Gallery  Search this

Danforth Foundation (Saint Louis, Mo.)  Search this

Edward F. Albee Foundation  Search this

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

United States. Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes  Search this

Wenger Gallery  Search this

Bach, Dirk, 1961-2012  Search this

Echols, Michael  Search this

Folwell-Turipa, Jody, 1942-  Search this

Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943  Search this

Joseph (Nez Percé Chief), 1840-1904  Search this

Longfish, George C.  Search this

McKaig, Margaret Emma  Search this

McKaig, Murray Peterson  Search this

Penny, David, (Illustrator)  Search this

Sakiestewa, Ramona  Search this

Smith, Jaune Quick-to-See, 1940-  Search this

Spruance, Benton, 1904-1967  Search this

Urdang, Bertha  Search this

WalkingStick, Charles  Search this

WalkingStick, Simon Ridge  Search this

WalkingStick, Sinom Ralph  Search this

Whitehorse, Emmi  Search this

Extent:

7 Items (Sound recording: 7 sound files (5 hr., 21 min.))

105 Pages (Transcript)

Culture:

Native American  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sketchbooks

Date:

2011 December 14-15

Scope and Contents:

An oral history interview of Kay WalkingStick conducted 2011 December 14-15, by Mija Riedel, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at WalkingStick's studio, in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York.

WalkingStick speaks of her childhood experiences and her parents; her grandfather Simon Ridge Walkingstick and jurisprudence; Dartmouth and Indian scholarships; how her parents met; her mother as a big influence; drawing and art in the family; her siblings; Syracuse; outdoors; Onondaga Valley; painting; winning a Scholastic Art Award; moving to Huntington Valley, Pennsylvania; attending Beaver; the 1950s; Pratt; review in Artnews; Danforth Foundation; Christianity; the women's movement; Cannabis Gallery; Native American heritage; Teepee Form and Chief Joseph; using wax; Dawes Commission; influences and artists; Catholicism; Italy; Bowling Green; sketchbooks; eroticism; Edward Albee's summer camp; Wenger Gallery; The Cardinal Points; being biracial; spirituality; Rome; abstraction and patterns; Il Cortile; Cairo; traveling; teaching; Cornell; Stony Brook; photography; technology; social and political commentary in art; changes to artwork over time; landscapes; mountains and the Rockies; Colorado; dialogues with God; symbols; art world; dealers; the WalkingSticks; Late Afternoon on the Rio Grande; art theory; drawing; diptych format; Venere Alpina; Sex, Fear and Aging; prints and books; and curiosity and humor. WalkingStick also recalls Simon Ralph WalkingStick, Margaret Emma McKaig, Charles WalkingStick, Murray Peterson McKaig, Benton Spruance, Michael Echols, Bear Paw, Bertha Urdang, Ramona Sakiestewa, Jody Folwell, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Emmi Whitehorse, George Longfish, David Penny, Dirk Bach, Bryn Mawr, and Marsden Hartley.

Biographical / Historical:

Kay WalkingStick (1935- ) is a Cherokee painter and professor in Jackson Heights, New York. Mija Riedel (1958- ) is an independent scholar in San Francisco, California.

General:

Originally recorded as 7 sound files. Duration is 5 hr., 21 min.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Restrictions:

This interview is open for research. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Occupation:

Painters -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

Cherokee artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Catholicism  Search this

Christianity  Search this

Feminism and art  Search this

Painting  Search this

Photography  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Native American artists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sketchbooks

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.

Identifier:

AAA.walkin11

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw906bfba9e-867a-4971-b422-993e186ba458

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-walkin11

Contents:

Folder(s) may include exhibition announcements, newspaper and/or magazine clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, illustrations, resumes, artist's statements, exhibition catalogs.

Culture:

Indians of North America  Search this

Nationality:

Diné (Navajo)  Search this

Topic:

Artists  Search this

Native Americans  Search this

Location:

Art & Artist files at the Smithsonian American Art Museum/ National Portrait Gallery Library

Art & Artist files at the National Museum of the American Indian Library

Data source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:SILAF_32372

Artist:

Whitehorse, Emmi  Search this

Writer of added commentary:

Lippard, Lucy R.,  Search this

Sponsoring body:

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian  Search this

Physical description:

12 unnumbered pages chiefly color illustrations 23 x 26 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Criticism, interpretation, etc

Exhibition catalogs

Place:

New Mexico

Date:

1991

Topic:

Painting, Abstract  Search this

Navajo painting  Search this

Call number:

ND237.W623 A4 1991

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_912563

Author:

Whitehorse, Emmi  Search this

Sherman, Tisa Rodriguez  Search this

Yassin, Robert A  Search this

Lippard, Lucy R  Search this

Tucson Museum of Art  Search this

Subject:

Whitehorse, Emmi  Search this

Physical description:

32 p. : col. ill., port. ; 23 x 31 cm

Type:

Books

Exhibitions

Date:

1997

Call number:

ND237.W623 A4 1997

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_977552

Author:

Whitehorse, Emmi  Search this

Umezulike, Dil Humphrey 1960-  Search this

Rice, Ryan  Search this

C-Moriez, D. 1954-  Search this

Internationales Künstlerpleinair (2nd : 1995 : Rostock, Germany)  Search this

Subject:

Whitehorse, Emmi  Search this

Umezulike, Dil Humphrey 1960-  Search this

Rice, Ryan  Search this

C-Moriez, D. 1954-  Search this

Physical description:

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., ports. ; 15 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Date:

1995

C1995

20th century

Topic:

Art, Modern  Search this

Art and society  Search this

Call number:

N6488.G3 R67 1995

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_539904