Modern Times

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.