Modern Times, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Modern Times
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Modern Times
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Modern Times
1994
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, artist
Cultural affiliations: Enrolled Salish, member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation of Montana, Cree, Salish, Shoshone, Interior Salish, Flathead
1940–2025
Modern Times, 1994
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: color lithograph
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 765 x 573 mm
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 30 1/8 x 22 9/16 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 36 1/4 x 30 1/4 x 1 in
Weight (Weight): 12 lbs
Credit line: Museum purchase
Accession number: 1994.0047
Not on display
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Archive Label 2003: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s work comments on the transformation of today’s Native Americans. Many Native Americans are losing sight of their traditions and ways. Her works express how American Indians must keep a foot in both the modern and traditional worlds to survive as a culture and a race. Quick-to-See Smith says, “I’ve used large identifiable Indian icons that have been romanticized by movies, novels, and the media.” But up close, the viewer gets a reading of a different story about Indian life, on and off the reservation. Exhibition Label: American Indian Art at the Spencer Museum Sept 6 - Oct 19-2003 Jaune Quick-To-See Smith’s work questions the assumptions made about American Indians through incorporating Anglo stereotypes and symbols in her work. In this print the label for a brand of apples is used for the head (with its feather headdress) of a figure wearing suit and carrying a briefcase.