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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

January 6 – December 12, 2021
Trade Canoe: Forty Days and Forty Nights

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  • Jaune Quick‑to‑See Smith, Trade Canoe: Forty Days and Forty Nights, 2015, acrylic, paper collage, crayon, and marker on canvas. Lent by Judith Liff Barker and Joseph N. Barker, Class of 1966, and the Judy and Noah Liff Foundation. Photo by Brian Wagner.

    Jaune Quick‑to‑See Smith, Trade Canoe: Forty Days and Forty Nights, 2015, acrylic, paper collage, crayon, and marker on canvas. Lent by Judith Liff Barker and Joseph N. Barker, Class of 1966, and the Judy and Noah Liff Foundation. Photo by Brian Wagner. © Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

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Trade Canoe: Forty Days and Forty Nights is part of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s well-known Trade Canoe series, which she began in 1992 as a critical response to quincentennial celebrations of Columbus’s arrival to the "New World." In her Trade Canoes and other large-scale paintings, Smith often layers images, paint, text, and objects to convey entangled webs of history, colonization, and extraction that characterize the American experience. Within Forty Days and Forty Nights, Smith draws on imagery from the Christian Bible, Salish creation stories and homelands, art historical references, and pop culture. She creates a cacophonous visual narrative, signaling a possible future of mass flooding as a result of global climate change and rising sea levels. Through this painting and The Rancher, also on view in the exhibition, Smith invites audiences to engage in a complex dialogue and to reconsider the visual landscapes that shape our understandings of Native Americans.

This exhibition is organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, and was generously supported by the William Chase Grant 1919 Memorial  Fund and the Leon C. 1927, Charles L. 1955, and Andrew J. 1984 Greenebaum Fund.

Exhibition Curator

Jami C. Powell

Press Mentions

Exhibition subject: Modern & Contemporary ArtNative AmericaUnited States & Canada