I See Red: Herd

1992

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Salish Kootenai, Native American, 1940 - 2025

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About the Artwork

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith created I See Red: Herd in 1992 as a counterpoint to the celebrations commemorating the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival in North America. The three-panel work is dominated by a moving herd of buffalo, one of the most iconic animals for Native Americans. The dripping paint that covers the buffalos resembles blood, evoking the devastation that their decimation wreaked on Native people. A deeper look uncovers collaged photos of Native people; animal locomotion studies by nineteenth-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1872-1885), eighteenth-century prints of ancien régime excess; taxonomic images of animals, food, and plants; limericks and nursery rhymes; and quotes from sources as diverse as the eighteenth-century Shawnee chief Blue Jacket and French artist Paul Gauguin.

Title I See Red: Herd

Artwork Date 1992

Artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

Life Dates Native American

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Native American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Salish kootenai

Medium Mixed media on canvas

Dimensions Overall: 60 × 150 inches (152.4 cm × 3 m 81 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department Indigenous Americas

Credit Museum Purchase, Ernest and Rosemarie Kanzler Foundation Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2020.29

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(Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, New York, USA);
2020-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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"Detroit Institute of Arts adds works to Native American collection, new works by women artists." Artdaily. https://artdaily.cc/news/131545/Detroit-Institute-of-Arts-adds-works-to-Native-American-collection--new-works-by-women-artists#.YYQ0NWDMKUm. (Accessed on November 4, 2021).

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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, I See Red: Herd, 1992, mixed media on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Ernest and Rosemarie Kanzler Foundation Fund, 2020.29.