Valjean Hessing (1934-2006) was a Choctaw painter who was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is best known for her narrative history paintings in gouache. Many of her paintings used earth tones on a white background. Hessing painted in the two-dimensional perspective of the Flatstyle of Native American art. She typically painted scenes of Choctaw daily life. Hessing was designated as a Master Artist by the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in 1976. Her artworks are in the permanent collections of the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, and the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, among others.