She was an obscure, young self-taught artist living in Michigan--working days in a factory making bumper stickers, painting at night--when she was discovered by Robert Bishop, who later became the director of the Museum of American Folk Art in New York. Since then, Kathy has come to be recognized "as one of the best landscape folk painters of the century," according to the Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Folk Art and Artists, p.164. Kathy paints with meticulous detail, capturing not only the essence of what she sees, but the tempo and rhythm of what she feels as well. Although she paints rural scenes as well as urban scenes, Kathy is best known for her paintings of New York, -largely because of the enthusiastic response to her very popular book, My New York. Kathy's paintings are in the permanent collection of a number of museums, including the American Folk Art Museum, New York, and the Smithsonian, Washington, D.C. Sylvia Alberts Denise Allen Marieluise Hutchinson Kathy Jakobsen Norton Latourelle Harry Lieberman Polly Minick Carol Hamilton Offet Patricia Palermino Susan Powers Sarah Rakes Rosebee Leo Sewell Susan Slyman Other Artists Shown by the Gallery