Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (January 15, 1940) is a Native American visual artist, curator, art educator, art advocate, and political activist. Born in a small town on the Flathead Reservation in Montana, she is an enrolled member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and of Métis and Shoshone descent. Quick-to-See Smith received her BA in 1976 from Framingham State College and her MA from the University of New Mexico in 1980. In the mid-1970s, Smith gained prominence as a painter and printmaker, later adding collage, drawing, and mixed media to her techniques. Her work draws on a Native worldview and comments on Native American identity, histories of oppression, and environmental issues. Quick-to-See Smith has received commendations including several honorary doctorates as well as induction into the National Academy of Art in 2011 and the New Mexico Women’s Hall of Fame in 2014. Her work is held in collections such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.
Artist: Jaune Quick-To-See-Smith
Date: 2005
Edition: 12-Feb
Medium: Lithograph, Woodcut
Collection: Collectors Circle
Dimensions: H. 30.5 x L. 22
Copyright Status: In Copyright
Credit: Purchased by the 2017 Collectors Circle
Accession Number: 2018.0001.0007