Joan Hill

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Joan Hill (December 19, 1930 – June 16, 2020

Muscogee Creek artist of Cherokee
ancestry. She was one of the most awarded Native American women artists in the 20th century.

Personal

Joan Hill was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, on December 19, 1930, the daughter of William M. and Winnie Harris Hill.[2][3]

She descended from both Muscogee Creek and Cherokee chiefs. She chose the name Cheh-se-quah, Muscogee for "Redbird," for both her great-grandfather, Redbird Harris, and her maternal grandfather.[4]

Hill lived on the site of the old

Pre-Columbian Indian mound dating from 1200 CE.[5]

Art career

Hill attended Bacone College. In 1952, she received her BA degree in education from Northeastern State University of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, in 1952.[2] In 1953, Hill took the Famous Artists Course.[2] She was a public art teacher for four years before becoming a full-time artist.[6]

She received more than 290 awards from countries including

Washington.[5] In 1974 Hill was given the title "Master Artist" by the Five Civilized Tribes Museum
in Muskogee.

Over 110 of her works are in permanent collections, including the Sequoyah National Research Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, the

U.S. Secretary of the Interior–2000. In 2000, Hill was the "Honored One" of the Red Earth festival in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
.

Artwork

Hill is known most for her stylized,

watercolors, she let negative space define foliage, mounds, or other landscape features. "Each element of her paintings is purposeful," writes author Susan C. Power.[4] She predominantly painted Muscogee and Cherokee women and frequently painted nude figures.[4] Hill also explored nonobjective abstraction
.

Via Gambaro Gallery, which was launched by Retha Walden Gambaro and Stephen Gambaro to spotlight contemporary Native American artists, included Hill's work in its 1980 National American Indian Women's Art Show.[7]

Hill said in 1991, "Art widens the scope of the inner and outer senses and enriches life by giving us a greater awareness of the world."[4]

In 2018 through 2020, her painting was exhibited in the exhibition Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[8]

Death

Hill died on June 16, 2020.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Joan Hill". Cornerstone Funeral Home & Crematory. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Joan (Chea-Se-Quah) Hill", askart.com; retrieved April 30, 2011.
  3. OCLC 36621704
    .
  4. ^ a b c d Power, Susan C. Art of the Cherokee: Prehistory to the Present. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007: pp. 190-93
  5. ^ a b c d About Joan Hill Archived 2007-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved June 23, 2007
  6. ^ Bisgyer-Lauer, M (editor), National American Indian Women's Art Show: NAIWAS, August 3-September 30, 1980, Via Gambaro Gallery,1980
  7. ^ Bisgyer-Lauer, M (editor), National American Indian Women's Art Show: NAIWAS, August 3-September 30, 1980, Via Gambaro Gallery,1980
  8. ISBN 978-0295745794
    .

External links
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