Examples of Walker Last's work has been purchased for permanent collections, including Granada Television, and the Halifax Building Society and in the publicly accessible collections of the York, Leeds and Bradford Universities, plus The Open University, and in the Bradford Museums and Galleries permanent collection. She was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Bradford in 1996. On her death the major part of the personal art collection of Tom and Marie Last were left to the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery including works by Alfred Wallace and Ben Nicholson which were acquired with the help of Tom's colleague the Yorkshire solicitor and art collector Cyril Reddihough.
