{"product_id":"original-southwestern-abstract-pastel-figures-animals-rainbow-arc-framed-29x37","title":"Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Pastel Drawing Figures and Petroglyphs c.1980, Signed","description":"\u003cp\u003ePRODUCT DETAILS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Brand: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (American, Confederated Salish and Kootenai, 1940-2025)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Material: Polychrome pastels on paper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Dimensions: Sheet 22 1\/2 x 30 in; framed approx. 29 x 37 in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Color\/Finish: Peach and ochre ground with brown, olive and mauve passages; figures in black and white outline; deckled sheet floated on a white mat under glass in a light wood frame\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Condition: Good. Pastel surface intact with no smudging to the mat and unfaded colour; frame shows scuffs and white paint marks on the lower rail; not examined out of the frame\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Era\/Period: Circa 1980\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Provenance: Private collection since at least 1999, when this sheet was photographed and catalogued as \"Drawing with Figures and Petroglyphs\" by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith in a professional appraisal (ASA) of the collection; the appraisal records the artist's gallery at the time as Horwich-Lewellyn Gallery, Santa Fe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Subject: Human figures, bison and dragonflies drawn in outline over a multi-coloured ground, with a segmented rainbow arc, zigzag, striped cone, crescent moon and feather motif; signed \"JQS Smith\" in pencil, lower right. Identified by the signature and the 1999 appraisal; it has not been reviewed by the artist's estate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA large petroglyph-period pastel by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, the Salish-Kootenai painter whose 2023 Whitney Museum retrospective was the first that museum gave a Native American artist. Figures, bison and dragonflies in the rock-art imagery that runs through her work of the 1980s sit over a warm, layered pastel ground, with the pencil signature at lower right. The sheet has a documented history back to 1999 and comes floated and glazed, ready to hang.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VaultXL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64723618365811,"sku":"VXL-00504","price":11875.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/6283\/3779\/files\/99a16ac3-d89b-4cec-becd-2d82e4385a70.png?v=1790181419","url":"https:\/\/vaultxlshop.com\/products\/original-southwestern-abstract-pastel-figures-animals-rainbow-arc-framed-29x37","provider":"VaultXL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}