The Rancher
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, French Cree / Shoshone / Salish / American, born 1940
Salish (Flathead)
Shoshone
Cree
Plateau
2002
Acrylic on canvas
Overall: 72 1/4 × 48 1/8 in. (183.5 × 122.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the William S. Rubin Fund
© Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
2005.13
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Native American
Painting
Native American: Plateau
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and inscribed, on reverse, in black marker, top edge: [illeg.] Smith 2002 "THE RANCHER" ACl 72" x 48"
Course History
SART 31, Painting II, Tom Ferrara, Summer 2012
SART 31, SART 72, Painting II, III, Colleen Randall, Spring 2013
NAS 30.1, ARTH 17, Modern Native American Art History, Joyce Szabo, Summer 2013
SART 31, 72, Painting II, III, Jennifer Caine, Winter 2019
Exhibition History
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, February 16, 2016-June 30, 2018.
Entrance Gallery, Luise and Morton Kaish Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26-April 7, 2019.
Intersections: Native American Art in a New Light, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, June 24, 2006-December 1, 2008.
Jaune Quick -to-See Smith: Memory Map, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, April 19-August 13, 2023; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, October 15, 2023-January 7,2024; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, February 15, 2024-May 12, 2024.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith - Trade Canoe: Forty Days and Forty Nights, Luise and Morton Kaish Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 6–December 12, 2021.
LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2005.
Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 26,2009-March 15, 2010.
Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8, 2011-March 12, 2012.
Native Ecologies: Recycle, Resist, Protect, Sustain, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 10, 2019-July 15, 2019.
Picturing Change: The Impact of Ledger Drawing on Native American Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 11, 2004-May 15, 2005.
Publication History
Zena Pearlstone, Kemo Sabe: The Tonto Paintings of Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, American Indian Art Magazine, Summer 2004, p. 72-79.
Annual Report 2005-6, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2006, ill. p.34.
Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009, p.87, no.62.
George P. Horse Capture, Sr., Joe D. Horse Capture, Joseph M. Sanchez, et al., Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, ill. on p. 65 and p. 157, no. 84.
John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 199, ill. plate no. 130.
John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 53, ill. fig. 8.7.
Provenance
The artist through LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico; sold to present collection, 2005.
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