Oral history interview with Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
name: label: Interviewee
content: Smith, Jaune Quick-to-See, 1940-
label: Interviewer
content: Trautmann, Rebecca, 1967-
label: Names
content: Leon Polk Smith Native American Oral History Project
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New Mexico
label: Topic
content: Native American artists
label: Topic
content: Women artists
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content: Women painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics, and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Smith, Jaune Quick-to-See, 1940-
label: Interviewer
content: Trautmann, Rebecca, 1967-
culture: label: Culture
content: Salish (Flathead)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (1940-2025) was a painter and an enrolled Salish member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, Montana. She as known for her large paintings that address socio-political issues through visual idioms of advertising, cartography, Native tradition, and contemporary life in the United States.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Rebecca Head Trautmann (1967- ) is the assistant curator of Contemporary Art at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items ((4 hrs., 48 min.), digital, mp4)
label: Extent
content: 95 Pages (Transcript)
phystech: label: Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
content: Recorded on Zoom (videoconferencing software)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2021 August 24 and 25
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.smith21
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
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content: Video recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Jaune Quick-to-See Smith conducted 2021 August 24 and 25, by Rebecca Trautmann for the Archives of American Art, at Smith's home and studio in Corrales, New Mexico.