Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Tribe/Community, 1996 (from the Survival Suite series)
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
French-Cree / Shoshone / Salish, 1940 - 2025
Tribe/Community, 1996 (from the Survival Suite series)
lithograph on Arches, chine-collé, edition 43 of 50
editioned lower left: 43/50
signed lower right: Jqts Smith
printer's chop lower right
inscribed verso: JQTS 944A
stamped verso: Published by / ZANATTA / EDITIONS
printed by Lawrence Lithography Workshop
published by Zanatta Editions
36 x 24 3/4 in. (91.4 x 62.9 cm.)
Private Collection
Literature:
Laura Phipps, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2023, pp. 44-45, 217, pl. 119
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith was a groundbreaking Native American painter, printmaker, curator, and activist and an enrolled citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. Raised on the Flathead Reservation in Montana, she developed a distinctive visual language combining abstraction, maps, commercial imagery, text, and Indigenous symbols to address land, colonialism, environmental stewardship, and contemporary Native identity. Smith was also an influential advocate and curator who created greater visibility for generations of Indigenous artists. Her five-decade career was celebrated in the Whitney Museum’s major 2023 retrospective, Memory Map.
Condition
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
French-Cree / Shoshone / Salish, 1940 - 2025
Tribe/Community, 1996 (from the Survival Suite series)
lithograph on Arches, chine-collé, edition 43 of 50
editioned lower left: 43/50
signed lower right: Jqts Smith
printer's chop lower right
inscribed verso: JQTS 944A
stamped verso: Published by / ZANATTA / EDITIONS
printed by Lawrence Lithography Workshop
published by Zanatta Editions
36 x 24 3/4 in. (91.4 x 62.9 cm.)
Private Collection
Literature:
Laura Phipps, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2023, pp. 44-45, 217, pl. 119
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith was a groundbreaking Native American painter, printmaker, curator, and activist and an enrolled citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. Raised on the Flathead Reservation in Montana, she developed a distinctive visual language combining abstraction, maps, commercial imagery, text, and Indigenous symbols to address land, colonialism, environmental stewardship, and contemporary Native identity. Smith was also an influential advocate and curator who created greater visibility for generations of Indigenous artists. Her five-decade career was celebrated in the Whitney Museum’s major 2023 retrospective, Memory Map.
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.
