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Kay WalkingStick, Two Women II, 1973, acrylic on canvas, overall: 42 3⁄8 × 44 1⁄8 in. (107.6 × 112.1 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2021.30.1, © Kay Walkingstick, 2017
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Artwork Details
- Title
- Two Women II
- Artist
- Date
- 1973
- Location
- Dimensions
- overall: 42 3⁄8 × 44 1⁄8 in. (107.6 × 112.1 cm)
- Copyright
- © Kay Walkingstick, 2017
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
- Mediums Description
- acrylic on canvas
- Classifications
- Highlights
- Subjects
- Figure group — female
- Object Number
- 2021.30.1
Artwork Description
A Cherokee woman, Kay WalkingStick has been a double trailblazer in American art. She describes this painting as a joyful expression of female self-determination and sensuality. Produced amid the women's movement and the sexual revolution of the 1970s, it offers a rejoinder to the long history of male artists depicting the female nude.
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