State Names Map: Cahokia

Artist: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, enrolled Salish, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, MT, 1940–2025
Date: 2023
Material: Mixed media on canvas
made in: Corrales, New Mexico, United States, North and Central America
Classification: Paintings
Collection: Modern and Contemporary Art
Current Location: Not on view
Dimensions: 80 in. × 12 ft. 6 in. (203.2 × 381 cm)
each: 80 × 50 × 1 1/2 in. (203.2 × 127 × 3.8 cm)
Credit Line: The Siteman Contemporary Art Fund, and funds given by Barbara and Andy Taylor, The Werner Family, John and Susan Horseman, Christine Taylor-Broughton and Lee Broughton, Nancy and Kenneth Kranzberg, Pam and Greg Trapp, Mr. and Mrs. Gary Wolff, Dottie and Kent Kreh, Dwyer Brown and Nancy Reynolds, Suzy Besnia and Vic Richey, Clare M. Davis and David S. Obedin, Yvette Drury Dubinsky and John Paul Dubinsky, Judith Weiss Levy, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Lowenhaupt, and Mary Ann and Andy Srenco.
Rights: © Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York
Object Number: 71:2023a-c

NOTES

In State Names Map: Cahokia, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith foregrounded Indigenous relations to land. Text features only those state names based on Native languages. A sprawling network of rivers converges on St. Louis, calling up the cosmopolitan past of Cahokia as a site for religious pilgrims.

Provenance

2023
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

- 2023
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, through Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, NY [1]

Notes:
[1] Purchase agreement between Garth Greenan Gallery and the Saint Louis Art Museum, August 15, 2023 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, September 18, 2023; and the Minutes of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, October 16, 2023.

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