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Jaune Quick-To-See Smith Mixed Media Drawing

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Jaune Quick-To-See Smith Mixed Media Drawing
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Title is The Environment: Be a Shepherd. 34" by 46" framed. Provenance Tootie Myhre Bigfork Montana Estate. Carol Tootie Myhre grew up in Olympia, WA where she became an excellent golfer, a sport she continued to enjoy. After graduation from Western Washington State College, she worked at the Montana School for the Deaf and Blind. Tootie and the late Eric Myhre, a Montana advertising executive, shared a passion for art and fine things. They had an extensive collection of fine art and incorporated it into their daily living between Bigfork Montana and Carefree Arizona. Jaune Quick-To-See Smith (Born 1940) is active/lives in New Mexico, Montana. Jaune Smith is known for Modernist Indian figure-genre painting. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, of Salish, French-Cree and Shoshone ancestry, was born on the Flathead Indian Reservation in St. Ignatius, Montana in 1940. The daughter of an amateur painter, her pastels and paintings depict her memories of childhood landscapes, her horse, "Cheyenne," appearing in many of her works. She studied at Framingham State College, Massachusetts, earning a B.A. degree in Art Education in 1976, and the University of New Mexico, M.F.A., Art, 1980. She now lives in Corrales, New Mexico. Smith became an artist while in her 30s, and was earning a living as a painter before she completed her degree at the University of New Mexico. By the mid-1970s, Smith had also founded artists' groups, curated exhibitions, and organized grassroots protests to express her concern for the land and its people. Smith creates work that addresses the myths of her ancestors in the context of current issues facing American Indians. She works with paint, collage, and appropriated imagery, using a combination of representational and abstract images. Inspired by the formal innovations of such artists as Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, and Robert Rauschenberg, as well as traditional American Indian art, Smith sees herself as "a harbinger, a mediator and a bridge builder. My art, my life experience, and my tribal ties are totally enmeshed. I go from one community with messages to the other, and I try to enlighten people." The artist's awards include: Purchase Award, Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, 1987; Distinguished Service Award, Salish Kootenai College, Montana 1991; SITE Santa Fe Award, 1995; Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, 1996; Lifetime Achievement Award, Women's Caucus for the Arts, 1997; Honorary Doctorates at Minneapolis College of Art and Design 1992; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia 1998; Eiteljorg Fellowship, 1999. Her one-person show, "Subversion/Affirmation: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, A Survey," originated at the Jersey City Museum, concluding its national tour in 1998 at the Art Museum of Missoula, Montana. Other solo exhibitions include: The Neuberger Museum; Smith College; The Chrysler Museum, Lehigh University; New Mexico State University Museum. Smith's group exhibits include: The Decade Show, NY; Myth and Magic in the Americas, Museo de Arte Comtemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico; The IV South American Biennial; Stephane Janssen Collection; Kaleidoscope Show, the National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; World Views: Maps & Art, the Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis; Ceremonial, the Venice Biennale; The View from Here, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.Italic Smith's work is in numerous public collections, including; Museum of Mankind, Vienna, Austria; National Museum of Women in the Arts, DC; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Smith College, Massachusetts; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Jersey City Museum; Chrysler Art Museum, Virginia; High Museum, Atlanta; National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. PUBLICATIONS: The Pink Glass Swan; Partial Recall and Mixed Blessings by Lucy Lippard; Art History by Marilyn Stokstad; Women Artists: Works from the National Museum of Women in the Arts by Nancy Heller; Women, Art and Society by Whitney Chadwick; Native American Identities by Scott Vickers; Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art by Suzanne Lacy and Printmaking in New Mexico 1880-1990 by Clinton Adams. Smith has been featured in six PBS broadcasts, several German ZDF films and a Finnish documentary. Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, Village Voice, Art Forum, Art News, The New Art Examiner, Art Week, The New York Times and Art Papers. SELECTED PUBLIC COMMISSIONS: Commissions include the Ridgedale Library Mural, (12' X 24'), Hennepin County, MN in 1999; West Seattle AIki Beach Trail, team, memorial markers and art installations, 1996; National Museum of the American Indians, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, artist on design team, 1993; Northwind Fishing Weir Story, Fish Wheel Project, collaboration with Duwamish Tribe, King County Arts Commission, Seattle, WA, 1992; Yerba Buena Park, Sculpture Garden, Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, Cultural Museum, Flathead Reservation, MT, designed floor, New Denver Airport, Terrazzo Floor, Main Terminal, Wastewater Treatment Plant, Series of Installations for Public Tour, Phoenix, AZ , 1991; Washington State Arts Commission, Public Schools Art Program, 1990; Salt River Utilities Headquarters, Phoenix, AZ, 1989; The Palms Hotel, Phoenix, AZ, 1985; Phelps Dodge Corporation Headquarters, Phoenix, AZ, 1983. LECTURES: Smith has lectured at over 175 universities, museums and conferences internationally. She has delivered keynote addresses to many annual art education conferences as well as the National Art Education Association's National Conference and the Women's Caucus for the Arts National Conference. PRINTMAKING: Smith has printed at workshops nationwide including RCIPP, Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ; Tandem Press, Madison, WI; Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO; Lawrence Lithography Workshop, Kansas City, KS; and Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM. BOARDS: The Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe; American Indian Contemporary Art Gallery, San Francisco; Montana Indian Contemporary Arts; Atlatl, Phoenix; the College Art Association, NY and the Salish Kootenai College Foundation Board, Flathead Nation, MT. CURATOR: She has organized and curated over 30 American Indian exhibits including the first two Heard Museum Biennials; Women of Sweetgrass; Photographing Ourselves; Our Land Ourselves; The Submoluc Show or the Columbus Woes; We the Human Beings; Positives and Negatives; We are many, we are one; and Offerings from the Heart.
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