The American Landscape
2006
21st century
30 in. x 22 1/2 in. (76.2 cm x 57.15 cm)
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith,
Native American,
b. 1940
Object Type:
Prints
Creation Place:
North America, United States
Medium and Support:
six-color lithograph with collage on paper
Credit Line:
Gift Account purchase from Tamarind Impressions
Accession Number:
2007.041
Born on the Flathead Reservation in Montan, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is a prominent Native American artist and "cultural art worker." The American Landscape brings together images and symbols from modern life all whirling under the watchful eye of a native onlooker. The artist writes about the larger context of meaning:
"The American landscape is undergoing constant change by political and corporate economic agendas impacting the natural world and creating an assemblage of a nuclear admixture. Some scientists believe that eventually humans will self-immolate, thus leaving the planet to the surviving insects, like perhaps the cockroachesö. American Landscape is the product of a collaboration between the artist and master printers at Tamarind Institute in New Mexico. Founded in 1960 in Los Angeles, Tamarind has been affiliated with the Unveristy of New Mexico’s College of Fine Arts since 1970. Tamarind Institute, committed to sustaining and expanding collaborative fine art lithography, offers a professional training program for printers, collaborative lithography workships for artists, printers and teachers, and publishes fine art prints in collaboration with artists of national and international reputation."