Wisdom/Knowledge

Series Title: Survival

1996

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

(Citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, 1940–2025)

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Culture

Medium

color lithograph

Measurements

Image and Sheet: 91.1 x 62.8 cm (35 7/8 x 24 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 2022.98.1

Edition

37/50

Impression

This artwork is known to be under copyright.

Location

Not on view

Did You Know?

Jaune Quick-To-See Smith has described artworks such as this print as having a personal significance—comprising, in her words, “a diary, or journal, of my life.”

Description

For the past five decades, artist and activist Jaune Quick-To-See Smith has developed a distinctive, collage-based style combining Indigenous stories and symbols with references to canonical modern art history to suggest a place for Indigenous culture within contemporary art. This print belongs to a series of four, each of which references a value that Smith feels has protected and guided her tribe through years of challenges and trauma. Expressive lithographic marks are layered over found popular and artistic imagery to suggest such ongoing resilience.