Kitt was community leader, author, intellectual and pioneer who impacted generations of artists and helped launch and build many of Tucson’s cultural institutions.

Katherine and William were given a lot of land as a wedding present in the Armory Park Historic Residential District at 319 S. Fourth Avenue in downtown Tucson.

[1] In 1929 Kitt drafted the book Long Ago Told: Legends of the Papago Indians that was published under the authorship of Harold Bell Wright.

[3] Kitt envisioned Tucson as an important center of art in the Southwest and United States [4] and tirelessly worked to achieve that goal.

She spent summers on Mount Lemmon and in Mexico, she made multiple trips to Europe and North Africa, painting scenes of Spain and Morocco.