Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People), (sculpture)

Object Details

sculptor

Smith, Jaune Quick-To-See 1940-2025

Hagood, Martha N., and Jefferson C. Harrison, "American Art at the Chrysler Museum: Selected Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings," Norfolk, VA: Chrysler Museum of Art, 2005, pg. 258.

Serwer, Jacquelyn Days, "American Kaleidoscope: Themes and Perspectives in Recent Art," Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, 1996, pg. 44.

Hagood, Martha N., and Jefferson C. Harrison, "American Art at the Chrysler Museum: Selected Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings," Norfolk, VA: Chrysler Museum of Art, 2005, pg. 258.

Serwer, Jacquelyn Days, "American Kaleidoscope: Themes and Perspectives in Recent Art," Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, 1996, pg. 44-45.

The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.

Summary

Three panels featuring collaged pages from the artist's reservation newspaper, pieces of fabric, clippings of magazine, advertisements, textbooks, and road maps which express the Native American history and daily life on the reservation. The collage is dripping with a layer of red and green paint, in which an image of a canoe is outlined in black paint. Above the panels is a chain adorned with Native American artifacts, toys, souvenirs, and sport memorabilia.

Culture

Indian

1940

Control number

IAS 55450098

Type

Sculptures

Medium

Oil, collage, mixed media on canvas, and found objects

Owner/Location

Chrysler Museum of Art 245 West Olney Road (at Mowbray Arch) Norfolk Virginia 23510-1587 Accession Number: 93.2

Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums

Topic

Abstract

History--United States

Ethnic

Architecture--Boat--Canoe

Record ID

siris_ari_384155

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