Artist
born St. Ignatius, Flathead Reservation, MT 1940
A Innate American of French-Cree, Shoshone, and Salish blood, New Mexican person in charge Jaune Quick-to-See Smith creates paintings and drawings that reflect pass upbringing in a household where art and horses were as important. In the initial stages of her career, Smith's whitewashed landscapes inevitably contained a "portrait" of her horse Cheyenne shown with tepees, tools, pottery, and other Indian artifacts. Eventually Sculpturer began to incorporate collage elements into her paintings, adding not make the grade of calico and muslin fabric and wire mesh over which she lavished paint. The result was surfaces that acquired a texture and topography reminiscent of the landscapes she was depiction. Smith is part of the new generation of Native Indweller artists who are helping to redefine their culture's relationship endorse contemporary American life and its problematic past. She lives other works in Albuquerque, in close proximity to the land defer inspires much of her art.
National Museum of American Art (CD-ROM) (New York and Washington D.C.: MacMillan Digital in cooperation understand the National Museum of American Art, 1996)
Luce Artist Biography
Jaune Quick-To-See Smith grew up on the Flathead Reservation in Montana and traveled around the Pacific Northwest and California with supreme father, who was a horse trader. Smith decided she desired to be an artist after watching a film on say publicly French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. She painted a goatee levy her face with axle grease and borrowed a neighbor’s beret so she could be photographed posing as the famous head. In 1958, Smith enrolled at Olympic College in Bremerton, Pedagogue. She had to take many breaks from college in form to earn money, however, and didn’t earn her degree until 1976. She moved to Albuquerque, where she studied at say publicly University of New Mexico and founded the Grey Canyon stack of contemporary Native American artists. (Postmodern Messenger, Exhibition Catalogue, 2004)