Original Abstract Painting with Humans and Animal [SOLD]

This untitled oil pastel is part of Jaune Quick-To-See Smith’s Camus series, which was completed around 1980.  Geometric shapes of squares, triangles, rectangles, human and animal figures, and pastel and dark colors combine for a striking image.

The image was painted on handmade paper which has been framed so that the full view of the paper is visible. 

Born January 15, 1940 in St. Ignatius, a small town on the Flathead Reservation on the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Indian Reservation, Montana, Jaune Quick–to–See Smith is an internationally renowned painter, printmaker and artist.  Her first name comes from the French word for "yellow" (jaune), from her French-Cree ancestry. Her middle name "Quick-To-See" was given by her Shoshone grandmother as a sign of her ability to grasp things readily. 

She earned a BA in Art Education from Framingham State College, Massachusetts, and an MA in Art from the University of New Mexico.  Smith has been awarded honorary doctorates from Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts, Massachusetts College of Art and the University of New Mexico.  In 2015, she received an honorary degree in Native American Studies from Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, MT.  -Wikipedia

Condition: original condition

Provenance: from a resident of New Mexico

Recommended Reading:  Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: An American Modernist by Carolyn Kastner