A Jaune Quick-to-See Smith pastel drawing

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Salish/French-Cree/Shoshone, (b. 1940), untitled (abstract landscape composition with figure, tipis and horse), pastel on Arches paper under glass, signed lower left: JQTS Smith.
paper: height 30in, width 22 1/2in
Although untitled, the thematic composition and medium places the present lot within the creative period of the artist's "Kalispell Series," circa 1979-80. See Bonhams Modern Native American Art, 5 April 2023, lot 104 (www.bonhams.com/auction/28215/lot/104), and "Kalispell #3," in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, accession number 2008.138 (https://whitney.org/collection/works/33555)