Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (born 1940) is a
Native American visual artist and curator. She is an enrolled member of the
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and is also of
Métis and
Shoshone descent. She is also an art educator, art advocate, and political activist. She has been prolific in her long career, and her work draws from a Native worldview and comments on American Indian identity, histories of oppression, and environmental issues.
In the mid-1970s, Smith gained prominence as a painter and printmaker,
/sup>">/sup> /sup>">/sup> and later she advanced her style and technique with collage, drawing, and mixed media. Her works have been widely exhibited and many are in the permanent collections of prominent art museums including the
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
, the
Whitney Museum of American Art
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,
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...
,
Denver Art Museum
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, and the
Walker Art Center
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as well as the
Smithsonian American Art Museum /sup>">2/sup> and
National Museum of Women in the Arts
The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C., is "the first museum in the world solely dedicated" to championing women through the arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay. Since openin ...
.
/sup>">3/sup> Her work has also been collected by
New Mexico Museum of Art
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(Santa Fe)
/sup>">4/sup> and
Albuquerque Museum,
/sup>">5/sup> both located in a landscape that has continually served as one of her greatest sources of inspiration. In 2020 the
National Gallery of Art announced it had bought her painting ''I See Red: Target'' (1992), which thus became the first painting on canvas by a Native American artist in the gallery.
Smith actively supports the
Native art
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s community by organizing exhibitions and project collaborations, and she has also participated in national commissions for public works. She lives in
Corrales, New Mexico, near the
Rio Grande, with her family.
Biography
Early life
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith was born on January 15, 1940, in
St. Ignatius Mission,
">/sup> a small town on the Flathead Reservation
The Flathead Indian Reservation, located in western Montana on the Flathead River, is home to the Bitterroot Salish, Kootenai, and Pend d'Oreilles tribes – also known as the
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation. The ...
on the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Indian Reservation, Montana
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. Her first name, Jaune, means "yellow" in French, pointing to her French- Cree ancestry. Her Indian name, "Quick-to-See," was given to her by her Shoshone grandmother as a sign of an ability to grasp things readily. ">/sup>
As a child, Smith had an itinerant life. Her father, a single parent who traded horses and participated in rodeos, frequently moved between several reservations as a horse trader. As a result, Jaune lived in various places of the Pacific Northwest and California. ">/sup> Growing up in poverty, /sup>">/sup> Smith worked alongside migrant workers in a Seattle farming community between the ages of eight and fifteen years old, when school was not in session.
However, Smith knew very early on that she wanted to be an artist. She remembers drawing on the ground with sticks as a four-year old, /sup>">/sup> and in first grade, she recalls the first time she encountered tempera paints and crayons:I loved the smell of them. It was a real awakening. I made a painting of children dancing around Mount Rainier. My teacher raved about it. Then with Valentine’s Day approaching, I painted red hearts all over the sky. … I see it as my first abstract painting."
Education
In 1960, Smith began her formal art education in Washington State, earning an associate of arts degree from Olympic College
Olympic College is a public community college in Bremerton, Washington. It opened as Olympic Junior College on September 5, 1946. Olympic College serves Kitsap and Mason counties in Washington. The college's service area contains two major na ...
in Bremerton
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and taking classes at the University of Washington
The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington.
Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattl ...
in Seattle
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. Her education, however, was interrupted because she had to support herself through various jobs as a waitress, Head Start teacher, factory worker, domestic, librarian, janitor, veterinary assistant, and secretary. ">/sup> In 1976, she completed a bachelor's degree in Art Education from Framingham State College
Framingham State University (Framingham State or FSU) is a public university in Framingham, Massachusetts. It offers undergraduate programs as well as graduate programs, including MBA, MEd, and MS.
History
As the first secretary of the newly ...
, Massachusetts, and then moved to Albuquerque
Albuquerque ( ; ), ; kee, Arawageeki; tow, Vakêêke; zun, Alo:ke:k'ya; apj, Gołgéeki'yé. abbreviated ABQ, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Its nicknames, The Duke City and Burque, both reference its founding in ...
, New Mexico, to start graduate school at the University of New Mexico
The University of New Mexico (UNM; es, Universidad de Nuevo México) is a public research university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Founded in 1889, it is the state's flagship academic institution and the largest by enrollment, with over 25,400 ...
(UNM). Her initial attraction to the university was its comprehensive Native American studies program, but after applying three times and being successively turned down, she decided to continue taking classes and making art.[Ed. Abbot, Lawrence, ''I Stand in the Center of the Good: Interviews with Contemporary Native American Artists,'' University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln, 1994.] After an eventual exhibition at the Kornblee Gallery in New York City and its review in '' Art in America'', she was finally accepted into the Department of Fine Arts at UNM where in 1980 she graduated with a Masters in Art. ">/sup> This liberal arts education formally introduced her to studies on the classical and contemporary arts, focusing on European and American artistic practices throughout the millennia, which served as her most influential point of access to the contemporary global art world. ">/sup>
From this background of her childhood and formal arts education, Smith has actively negotiated Native and non-Native societies by navigating, merging, and being inspired by diverse cultures. She produces art that "follows the journey of erlife as he movesthrough public art projects, collaborations, printmaking, traveling, curating, lecturing and tribal activities." This work serves as a mode of visual communication, which she creatively and consciously composes in layers to bridge gaps between these two worlds /sup>">/sup> and to educate about social, political and environmental issues existing deeper than the surface.
Artistic style
Smith has been creating complicated abstract paintings and lithographs
Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a ...
since the 1970s. She employs a wide variety of media, working in painting, printmaking and richly textured mixed media pieces. Such images and collage elements as commercial slogans, sign-like petroglyphs
A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions ...
, rough drawing, and the inclusion and layering of text are unusually intersected into a complex vision created out of the artist's personal experience. Her works contain strong, insistent socio-political commentary that speaks to past and present cultural appropriation and abuse, while identifying the continued significance of the Native American peoples. She addresses today's tribal politics, human rights and environmental issues with humor. Smith is known internationally for her philosophically centered work regarding her strong cultural beliefs and political activism.
Smith's collaborative public artworks include the terrazzo
Terrazzo is a composite material, poured in place or precast, which is used for floor and wall treatments. It consists of chips of marble, quartz, granite, glass, or other suitable material, poured with a cementitious binder (for chemical bind ...
floor design in the Great Hall of the Denver Airport
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; an in-situ sculpture piece in Yerba Buena Gardens
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, San Francisco
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; and a mile-long sidewalk history trail in West Seattle
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.
1980s
Smith's initial mature work consisted of abstract landscapes, begun in the 1970s and carried into the 1980s. Her landscapes often included pictographic
A pictogram, also called a pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto, and in computer usage an icon, is a graphic symbol that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object. Pictographs are often used in writing and ...
symbolism and was considered a form of self-portraiture; Gregory Galligan explains in Arts Magazine in 1986, "each of these works distills decades of personal memory, collective consciousness, and historical awareness into a cogent pictorial synthesis." The landscapes often make use of representations of horses, teepees, humans, antelopes, etc.
These paintings touch on the alienation of the American Indian in modern culture, by acting as a sum of the past and something new altogether. She does this by beginning to saturate her work with the style of Abstract Expressionists
Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York City in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York at the center of the ...
. Smith explains, "I look at line, form, color, texture, etc., in contemporary art as well as viewing old Indian artifacts the same way. With this I make parallels from the old world to contemporary art. A Hunkpapa drum become a Rothko
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painting; ledger-book symbols become Cy Twombly
Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (; April 25, 1928July 5, 2011) was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.
Twombly is said to have influenced younger artists such as ...
; a Naskaspi bag is Paul Klee
Paul Klee (; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented ...
; a Blackfoot robe, Agnes Martin
Agnes Bernice Martin (March 22, 1912 – December 16, 2004), was an American abstract painter. Her work has been defined as an "essay in discretion on inward-ness and silence". Although she is often considered or referred to as a minimalist, Mart ...
; beadwork color is Josef Albers
Josef Albers (; ; March 19, 1888March 25, 1976) was a German-born artist and educator. The first living artist to be given a solo show at MoMA and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, he taught at the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College ...
; a parfleche is Frank Stella
Frank Philip Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. Stella lives and works in New York City.
Biography
Frank Stella was born in Ma ...
; design is Vasarely
Victor Vasarely (; born Győző Vásárhelyi, ; 9 April 1906 – 15 March 1997) was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the Op art movement.
His work entitled ''Zebra'', created in 1937, is consi ...
's positive and negative space."
1990s
In the 1990s, Smith began her ''I See Red'' series, which she has continued on and off through this day. Paintings in this series were initially exhibited a
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery
in 1992, in conjunction with protests regarding the Columbian quincentenary. As Erin Valentino describes in ''Third Text
''Third Text'' is a leading peer-reviewed academic journal covering art in a global context. After founder and editor Rasheed Araeen's earlier art magazine ''Black Phoenix'', which started in 1978 and published only three issues, ''Third Text'' ...
'' in 1997, "The paintings in this series employ numerous kinds of imagery from an abundance of sources and in a variety of associations: high, mass, consumer, popular, national, mainstream and vernacular cultures, avant-garde (modernist) imagery and so-called Indian imagery in the form of found objects, photographs, scientific illustrations, fabric swatches, bumper stickers, maps, cartoon imagery, advertisements, newspaper cut-outs and visual quotations of her own work, to name some." Here, she juxtaposes stereotypical commodification of native American cultures with visual reminders of their colonizer's legacies. The style of these paintings, with their collage, layered, and misty environments, are reminiscent of that of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose work is associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and pop art. He is well known for his depictions of the American flag and other US-related top ...
, their subject matter reminiscent of Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the Art movement, visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore th ...
, too.
2000s
Smith has consistently addressed respect for nature, animals, and human kind. Her interest in these topics lies in her exploration of the adverse socio-cultural circumstances created for Native Americans by the government; this umbrella term refers to the health, sovereignty, and rights of Native Americans. She is able to put her studies into practice by avoiding toxic art supplies and minimizing excessive art storage space.
Today, Smith's paintings still contain contemporary cultural signifiers and collaged elements. References to the Lone Ranger
The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked former Texas Ranger who fought outlaws in the American Old West with his Native American friend Tonto. The character has been called an enduring icon of American culture.
He first appeared in 1933 in ...
, Tonto
Tonto is a fictional character; he is the Native American (either Comanche or Potawatomi) companion of the Lone Ranger, a popular American Western character created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker. Tonto has appeared in radio and tele ...
, Snow White
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is a 19th-century German fairy tale that is today known widely across the Western world. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection '' Grimms' Fairy Tales'' and numbered as T ...
, Altoids
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, Krispy Kreme
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Krispy Kreme was founded by Vernon Rudolph (1915–1973), who bought a yeast-raised recipe from a New Orleans c ...
, Fritos
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, etc., all serve to critique the rampant consumerism of American culture, and how this culture benefits off of the exploitation of Native American cultures. She uses humor in a cartoonish way to bemoan the corruption of nature and mock the shallowness of contemporary culture.
''War is Heck'' (2002)
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith creates a unique art piece called, ''War is Heck'' (2002). Smith uses her gift to strongly address how her people were treated in the past. “War is Heck” is a lithograph that details the cross-cultural experiences of Smith. Smith adds details such as Native American, European, and American art. Smith uses a “horse” to represent herself, and by doing so she’s attaching herself to her artwork. Smith refers to the Americans by using the American Flag
The national flag of the United States of America, often referred to as the ''American flag'' or the ''U.S. flag'', consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the ca ...
and she uses the “Buffalo” to represent the Native Americans who lived here first before anyone. She also includes “El Soldado'' which translates as “the soldier.” She depicts a soldier with wings that appears to be riding the horse. At first glance the red and blue seem to represent the United States of America
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, but when you take a closer look at the top of the page under the blue it states, “peace.” The display of red could be a representation of all the lives that were lost. This painting has many attributes regarding the people who once roam the land and the people who came to take the land.
Nomad Art Manifesto
As an active environmentalist, Smith often critiques the pollution created through art-making such as toxic materials, excessive storage space, and extensive shipping. The Nomad Art Manifesto, designed based on the aesthetic of parfleche
A parfleche is a Native American rawhide container that is embellished by painting, incising, or both.
Envelope-shaped parfleches have historically been used to contain items such household tools or foods, such as dried meat or pemmican. They w ...
s, consists of squares carrying messages about the environment and Indian life, made entirely from biodegradable materials.
The Nomad Art Manifesto:
* Nomad Art is made with biodegradable materials
* Nomad Art can be recycled
* Nomad Art can be folded and sent as a small parcel
* Nomad Art can be stored on a bookshelf, which saves space
* Nomad Art does not need to be framed
* Nomad Art is convenient for countries which may be disbanding or reforming
* Nomad Art is for the new diaspora age.
Awards and honors
Smith has received attention for her work as an artist, educator, art advocate, and political activist throughout her career and she has received multiple honors, awards and fellowships.
Smith has been awarded several honorary degrees. These include doctorate
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s in art granted by the Minneapolis College of Art and Design
The Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) is a private college specializing in the visual arts and located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. MCAD currently enrolls approximately 800 students. MCAD is one of just a few major art schools to offer ...
in 1992, the in 1998, Massachusetts College of Art
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, branded as MassArt, is a public college of visual and applied art in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1873, it is one of the nation’s oldest art schools, the only publicly funded independent art school ...
in 2003, and University of New Mexico in 2008; /sup>">/sup> a professorship in art by Washington University in St. Louis
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in 1989; and, a degree in Native American Studies by Salish Kootanai College, Pablo, Montana in 2015. /sup>">/sup>
Among lifetime achievement awards
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acknowledging dedication to her career, she has received the Women's Caucus for Art
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Award in the Visual Arts in 1997, the College Art Association
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Committee on Women in the Arts Award in 2002, and the Woodson Foundation Award in 2014 as well as being inducted into the National Academy of Design
The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the f ...
in 2011. She has also been the recipient of the Women's Vision Award for the National Women's History Project in Women's Art in 2008 and the Visionary Woman Award from Moore College of Art & Design
Moore College of Art & Design is a private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its undergraduate programs are available only for female students, but its other educational programs, including graduate programs, are co-educational.
Hist ...
in 2011. Other notable awards throughout the years have been the Wallace Stegner
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Award for art of the American West in 1995, the Joan Mitchell Foundation
Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 – October 30, 1992) was an American artist who worked primarily in painting and printmaking, and also used pastel and made other works on paper. She was an active participant in the New York School of artis ...
Award in 1996 to archive her work through the Painters Grant, the Eiteljorg Museum
The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art is an art museum in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The Eiteljorg houses an extensive collection of visual arts by indigenous peoples of the Americas as well as Western Ame ...
Fellowship for Native American Fine Art in its inaugural year of 1999, ArtTable award in 2011, the Switzer Distinguished Artist Award in 2012, and a United States Artists
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Mission
The organization' ...
fellowship in 2020.
Her adoptive state of New Mexico
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has also lauded her contribution to the arts and local community with praise and continuous recognition over the decades. This began early in her state residency (with her first career honor) when she was named one of "80 Professional Women to Watch in the 1980s" by New Mexico Women's Political Caucus for her local civic engagement in 1979. Subsequent esteemed credits of distinction are: SITE Santa Fe
SITE Santa Fe (often referred to simply as SITE) is a nonprofit contemporary arts organization based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Since its founding in 1995, SITE Santa Fe has presented 11 biennials, more than 90 contemporary art exhibitions, and w ...
fellowship award in 1995; the New Mexico Governor's Outstanding New Mexico Woman's Award and the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts (Allan Houser
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in 2012; /sup>">6/sup> the aforementioned doctorate from University of New Mexico (Albuquerque) and the Woodson Foundation award in Santa Fe. Smith was also admitted to the New Mexico Women's Hall of Fame in 2014.
Exhibitions
Smith has participated in a large number of solo shows in the United States and internationally. Her solo shows include ''Jaune Quick-to-See Smith'' (1979), Kornblee Gallery, New York; ''Parameters Series'' (1993), Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia; ''Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Poet in Paint'' (2001), Neuberger Museum of Art
Neuberger Museum of Art is located in Purchase, New York, United States. It is affiliated with Purchase College, part of the State University of New York system. It is the nation's tenth-largest university museum. The museum is one of 14 sites o ...
, Purchase, New York; ''Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America'' (2003-2009), originating at Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, Missouri; and ''Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: In the Footsteps of My Ancestors'' (2017-2019), originating at Yellowstone Art Museum
The Yellowstone Art Museum in downtown Billings, Montana is the largest contemporary art museum in Montana.
History and mission of the museum
The Yellowstone Art Center (now the Yellowstone Art Museum, or YAM) opened in October 1964 in the former ...
, Billings, Montana
Billings is the largest city in the U.S. state of Montana, with a population of 117,116 as of the 2020 census. Located in the south-central portion of the state, it is the seat of Yellowstone County and the principal city of the Billings Met ...
.
She has also participated in a large array of group exhibitions, including the 48th Venice Biennale (1999) and the Havana Biennial
The Bienal de La Habana was founded in 1984. It takes place in Havana (Cuba) every two years. It principally aims at promoting the developing world in contemporary art circles, giving priority to Latin American and Caribbean artists, although art ...
(2009).
Notable works in public collections
*''Nirada #16'' (1982), Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), comprising the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, is the largest public arts institution in the city of San Francisco. The permanent collection of the ...
*''The Courthouse Steps'' (1986), Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico
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*''August Encampment'' (1989-1999), Metropolitan Museum of Art
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, New York
*''Salish Spring (Montana Memories Series)'' (1988-1989), Missoula Art Museum, Montana
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*''Tamarack'' (1989), Birmingham Museum of Art
The Birmingham Museum of Art is a museum in Birmingham, Alabama. It has one of the most extensive collections of artwork in the Southeastern United States, with more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts repres ...
, Alabama
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*''Sources of Strength'' (1990), Minneapolis Institute of Art
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*''I See Red: Herd'' (1992), Detroit Institute of Arts
The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), located in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, has one of the largest and most significant art collections in the United States. With over 100 galleries, it covers with a major renovation and expansion project comple ...
*''I See Red: Salmon Recovery?'' (1992), Fralin Museum of Art
The Fralin Museum of Art is an art museum at the University of Virginia. Before 2012, it was known as the University of Virginia Art Museum. It occupies the historic Thomas H. Bayly Building on Rugby Road in Charlottesville, Virginia, a short dis ...
, Charlottesville, Virginia
*''I See Red: Target'' (1992), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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*''Mischief, Indian Land Series'' (1992), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
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, Bentonville, Arkansas
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*''The Red Mean: Self Portrait'' (1992), Smith College Museum of Art
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, Northampton, Massachusetts
*''Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People)'' (1992), Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
*''Fish For a Lifetime'' (1993-1994), Museum of Modern Art
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, New York
*''The Vanishing American'' (1994), Whitney Museum
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, New York
*''Genesis'' (1995), High Museum of Art
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, Atlanta
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*''I See Red: Migration'' (1995), Saint Louis Art Museum
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*''All American'' (1996), Chazen Museum of Art
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, Madison, Wisconsin
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*''I See Red: Flathead Vest'' (1996), Colby College Museum of Art
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, Waterville, Maine
*''Famous Names'' (1998), Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York
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*''Target: The Wild West'' (1999), Autry Museum of the American West
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, Los Angeles
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*''Browning of America (Map)'' (2000), Crocker Art Museum
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, Sacramento, California
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*''Echo Map I'' (2000), Baltimore Museum of Art
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*''State Names'' (2000), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution
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, Washington, D.C.
*''Tribal Map'' (2000), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
*''Tribal Map'' (2000-2001), Walter E. Washington Convention Center
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*''The Rancher'' (2002), Hood Museum of Art
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, Hanover, New Hampshire
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*''Song and Dance'' (2003), Missoula Art Museum, Montana
*''What is an American?'' (2003), Detroit Institute of Arts; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Spencer Museum of Art
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, Lawrence, Kansas; and Victoria and Albert Museum
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, London
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*''Trade Canoe for Don Quixote'' (2004), Denver Art Museum
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*''Who Leads? Who Follows?'' (2004), Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico
*''Trade Canoe: Adrift'' (2015), National Museum of the American Indian
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, Smithsonian institution, Washington, D.C.
*''Adios Map'' (2021), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Personal
Smith's son, Neal Ambrose-Smith, is a contemporary painter, printmaker, sculptor and educator.
References
Further reading
* Kastner, Carolyn. (2013) ''Jaune Quick-To-See Smith : An American Modernist''. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.
External links
Official site
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1940 births
20th-century American painters
20th-century American printmakers
20th-century American women artists
American women painters
American women printmakers
Artists from Montana
American contemporary painters
Interior Salish
Living people
Native American painters
Native American printmakers
Native American women artists
University of New Mexico alumni
People from Corrales, New Mexico
21st-century American women artists
20th-century Native American women
20th-century Native Americans
21st-century Native American women
21st-century Native Americans
Framingham State University alumni