Jaune "Quick-to-See" Smith
Native American, born 1940A Chart of the Human Body, 2005
Not on view
Woodcut and lithograph on paper
Dimensions30 1/2 × 22 in. (77.5 × 55.9 cm)
Image: 26 9/16 × 20 1/4 in. (67.5 × 51.4 cm)
Museum purchase, 2010.223
Jaune “Quick-To-See” Smith is a contemporary Native American painter, printmaker, and social activist. Smith’s work often explores Native American aesthetic traditions and contemporary society in a way that reveals the cultural implications of capitalism, historic amnesia, and racial complexities. This print, inspired by anatomical charts, features a stylized human torso with identifier lines that lead to images rather than anatomical terms. Some of the images relate to traditional Native American culture while others reference European American influence.
