Trade Canoe: Cahokia
- Artist
- Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, enrolled Salish, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, MT, 1940–2025
- Date
- 2023
- made in
- Corrales, New Mexico, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Mixed media, sculpture
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 13 × 94 × 15 in. (33 × 238.8 × 38.1 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
- 72:2023
NOTES
In Trade Canoe: Cahokia, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith painted the slender frame of a canoe red, then loaded it with goods. Here, the cast-resin objects—mirrors, guns, liquor, a beaver—highlight the destruction of European trade on Indigenous peoples. “I’m using trade canoes,” Smith said, “to give back stuff that’s not good for us.”
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.
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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