June 20 – October 11, 2026
Scheller Gallery
Louisa Davis Minot (1788-1858), Niagara Falls, 1818, oil on linen. The New York Historical, Gift of Mrs. Waldron Phoenix Belknap Sr. to the Waldron Phoenix Belknap Jr. Collection, 1956.4
Organized by the New-York Historical Society, Kay WalkingStick / Hudson River School places landscape paintings by the renowned, contemporary Cherokee artist Kay WalkingStick in conversation with highlights from New-York Historical’s collection of 19th-century Hudson River School paintings. This artistic dialogue showcases the ways in which WalkingStick’s work both connects to and diverges from the Hudson River School tradition and explores the agency of art in shaping humankind’s relationship to the land.
Kay WalkingStick (b. 1935), July Low Water, 2010, oil and palladium leaf on panel in two parts. Courtesy the artist and Hales, London and New York. Photo by JSP Art Photography. © Kay WalkingStick
The exhibition celebrates a shared reverence for nature while engaging crucial questions about land dispossession and its reclamation by Indigenous peoples and nations and exploring the relationship between Indigenous art and American art history.
This exhibition has been organized by The New York Historical.
The exhibition program at the Allentown Art Museum is supported through the generosity of The Bernard and Audrey Berman Foundation and the Leon C. and June W. Holt Endowment.
Major support for Kay WalkingStick / Hudson River School is provided by the Lily Auchincloss Foundation.
Image at top: Kay WalkingStick (b. 1935), Our Land Variation II (detail), 2008, oil stick on paper. Miller Meigs Collections. Photo by JSP Art Photography. © Kay WalkingStick