Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Spring, Weather, Garden, Plastics, 1991
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
French-Cree / Shoshone / Salish, 1940 - 2025
Spring, Weather, Garden, Plastics, 1991
watercolor, pastel, collage on paper
signed and dated lower right: Jqts Smith 91
15 x 15 in. (38.1 x 38.1 cm.), frame: 23 1/2 x 23 1/2 x 1 in. (59.7 x 59.7 x 2.5 cm.)
Private Collection, New Mexico
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith was an influential Native American painter, printmaker, curator, and activist, born on Montana’s Flathead Reservation and a citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation. Her work combined expressive abstraction, collage, text, and recognizable imagery, including maps, horses, and canoes, to explore Indigenous identity, American history, and humanity’s relationship with the land. Drawing on her cultural heritage and contemporary art, she used humor and pointed social commentary to challenge stereotypes and address environmental destruction and injustice. A dedicated advocate for Native artists, Smith received a major retrospective, Memory Map, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2023.
Condition
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
French-Cree / Shoshone / Salish, 1940 - 2025
Spring, Weather, Garden, Plastics, 1991
watercolor, pastel, collage on paper
signed and dated lower right: Jqts Smith 91
15 x 15 in. (38.1 x 38.1 cm.), frame: 23 1/2 x 23 1/2 x 1 in. (59.7 x 59.7 x 2.5 cm.)
Private Collection, New Mexico
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith was an influential Native American painter, printmaker, curator, and activist, born on Montana’s Flathead Reservation and a citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation. Her work combined expressive abstraction, collage, text, and recognizable imagery, including maps, horses, and canoes, to explore Indigenous identity, American history, and humanity’s relationship with the land. Drawing on her cultural heritage and contemporary art, she used humor and pointed social commentary to challenge stereotypes and address environmental destruction and injustice. A dedicated advocate for Native artists, Smith received a major retrospective, Memory Map, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2023.
Condition
A condition report for this lot is available upon request (please include the lot number in your request) and is provided by Santa Fe Art Auction as a courtesy and convenience for potential buyers.
