Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Pastel Drawing Figures and Petroglyphs c.1980, Signed
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Pastel Drawing Figures and Petroglyphs c.1980, Signed
PRODUCT DETAILS
• Brand: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (American, Confederated Salish and Kootenai, 1940-2025)
• Material: Polychrome pastels on paper
• Dimensions: Sheet 22 1/2 x 30 in; framed approx. 29 x 37 in
• 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
• 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
• Era/Period: Circa 1980
• 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
• 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
A 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.
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