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Coyote in Quarantine

2020

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

(Citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, 1940–2025)
printer

Valpuri Remling

(Finnish, active 2000s)
publisher

Tamarind Institute

Culture
America
Medium
9 color lithograph
Measurements
Image and Sheet: 67 x 50.5 cm (26 3/8 x 19 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Linda and Jack Lissauer, M.D. 2023.92
Catalogue raisonné
Tamarind 20-304
Edition
65/95
Impression
65
Copyright
Copyright
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
101A Prints & Drawings
Print
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Did You Know?

An active environmentalist, Quick-to-See Smith made a pledge along with some other Native American artists to limit the use of toxic materials and other pollutants in making art.

Description

Salish and Kootenai artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith often references animals with connections to the deep history of Native American culture in her works. Of the coyote, she writes: “It is said that the Human Beings were created when Coyote turned on the light; or when Otter brought daubs of earth to the surface of the water to form the land; or when Turtle raised its back. That was the beginning of our time—of we, the Human Beings. These creation stories draw parallels to Adam and Eve in the garden and are just as powerful.” The idea of a coyote in hiding came about before the 2020 pandemic, but quickly evolved into an image addressing the prolonged isolation the global population was then experiencing.
A vertically oriented print depicts a white and black figure like two cloths shaped by pointy ears and nose, hinting at a coyote underneath. The cloths are covered with black ink splotches and ripple as they float in front of an ombré teal blue to pale pink background. White four-pointed stars hover in the upper left corner, and blue lines and circles swish down to the figure's right. Gray ink splotches are splattered below the floating cloths.

Coyote in Quarantine

2020

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Valpuri Remling, Tamarind Institute

(Citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, 1940–2025), (Finnish, active 2000s)
America

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