Cowboys and Indians, Made in America

Artist: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, enrolled Salish, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, MT, 1940–2025
Printer: Kevin Garber, American, born 1957
Printer: Washington University Collaborative Printmaking Workshop, Saint Louis, Missouri, founded 1978
Publisher: Washington University Collaborative Printmaking Workshop, Saint Louis, Missouri, founded 1978
Date: 1995
Material: Collagraph
made in: Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, North and Central America
Classification: Prints
Collection: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Current Location: Not on view
Dimensions: image: 71 3/8 × 47 1/4 in. (181.3 × 120 cm)
sheet: 77 5/8 × 53 3/8 in. (197.2 × 135.6 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons; and funds given by the Marian Cronheim Trust for Prints and Drawings, Museum Purchase, Friends Endowment Fund, The Sidney S. and Sadie Cohen Print Purchase Fund, and the Eliza McMillan Purchase Fund
Rights: © Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York
Object Number: 800:2020

NOTES

Two figures wearing cowboy hats appear to shoot each other, though to comical rather than violent effect. The print’s title, inscribed at top and bottom, repeats a Hollywood cliché popularized in Western movies. Yet these figures are indistinguishable, negating supposed differences between the two characters. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith underscores the humor of the work in her strategic placement of the guns, which read as stand-ins for male anatomy. In this way, her print critiques stereotypes of “the West” and masculinity.

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