Four Directions

Artist Jaune Quick-to-see Smith (Citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, 1940 - 2025)

Printer The Lawrence Lithography Workshop (American, founded 1979)

Date1995

MediumLithograph on Rives BFK qhite paper with tea-stained Tableau paper (chine collé?)

DimensionsImage and sheet: 44 1/2 × 30 inches (113.03 × 76.2 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through the George H. and Elizabeth O. Davis Fund and the Andrew Atterbury and Gwen Prentice Fund

Object number2024.9.172

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DescriptionA print with layers of images. On the bottom, a bird on a flowering branch, in profile facing left. The bird is mostly blue with speckles on its chest. In the layer behind it, orange sketches including a fish, a flower, and a coyote’s head facing left. Behind it in the middle ground, the head of an Indian man drawn in green. On the right middle ground, a red sitting bear containing a smaller profile of the bear in yellow. At the top, several heads.Provenance

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