Name/Title
Handout, Kay Kittell, Art Studio, 318 East Main StreetDescription
Kay Kittell handout. Kay had these as a handout when she had an artist studio in downtown Waupun. The studio was at 318 E. Main street.
Kay Kittell handout. Year unknown.
Kay Kittell
Caption under photo: [Kittell, right, talks with visitors at one of her recent shows.]
Kay Kittell lives and paints in a large rambling farmhouse north of Waupun, Wisconsin, near the Horicon Wildlife Refuge. Her own land is a sanctuary of woods, hills, pasture, alfalfa, and corn fields.
Kittell studied art at Ripon College under Lester Schwartz. Later, at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, she worked under Robert Grilley, Bill Armstrong, and Dean Meeker.
Later still, she studied painting with Joanne Kindt and serigraphy with Tom Brady in Oshkosh.
She has been strongly influenced by the New York School, Georgia O'Keefe, and Helen Frankenthaler.
Journeys to California and Alaska, or just scarves at J. C. Penney have been the sources of Kittell's inspiration.
For example, the series of paintings on standing grasses began with the scarves. The vertical shapes of the first "scarves" paintings evolved into the vertical shapes of the grasses, and now, ribbons and spectrums.
Kittell and her husband, Frank, have six children, three of whom are still at home.
In the collection of:
The Oshkosh Public Museum
University of Wisconsin Center, Fond du Lac
Lennox Candle Co., Oshkosh
Caption over photo: [Kittell, right, discusses a painting with a gallery-goer.]
Additional Shows
One-woman show - Ripon Community Art Center
One-woman show, the Appleton Post-Crescent, Appleton
Three-woman show, Oshkosh Public Museum, Oshkosh
One-woman show, A.C. Spark Plug, Madison
Three-woman show, Art Ventures, Green Lake
More than 30 other juried fairs and exhibitions
Send inquiries to Kay Kittell, Route 2, Box 77, Waupun, WI 53963; or phone 414-324-5095
Kay Kittell has shown at the invitational "Women in Art" show at the West Bend Gallery of Arts, at the juried Beloit and Vicinity Fine Arts Show, at the Milwaukee Lake Front Show, and at the Collector's Gallery, Milwaukee Art Center.
"I have always painted—always."
"My whole interest in art is the power of shape. I use color to separate the shape, and line which floats on the color. Color is covered by tones . . . tones over the dark areas which give the painting a shimmering quality and patina of surface."Acquisition
Accession
2009.0025Source or Donor
James & Harriet LairdAcquisition Method
Donation
