Sticky Mouth

Sketches of figures, animals, and other abstract shapes overlap with grey and yellow background spots.

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, artist (b. 1940)
Michael Sims, printer (b. 1944)
Lawrence Lithography Workshop, publisher (est. 1979)
Lithograph on paper
32/40
1997
Fairchild Endowment Fund purchase, 2011
2011.24.2

Bold colors layered on top of one another, abstract figures, and vivid representations of movement. All of these make up Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s eye-catching pieces. Her work blends personal narratives concerning her own Salish identity with commercial images that express political commentary about Native Americans. Here a bear (“sticky mouth” in Blackfoot) is surrounded by images resembling Native American pictographs and Plains hide paintings.