Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America
September 16, 2006 January 14, 2007
Judy and Josh Weston Gallery
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Image: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, War Shirt, 1992.
Oil and mixed media collage on canvas diptych,
60 x 80 inches (overall) / 152.4 x 213.4 cm
Museum puchase; funds provided by Tamar and Emil Weiss and prior gifts of Roland B. Swart, 1993.27AB
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith uses humor and satire to examine myths, stereotypes, and the paradox of American Indian life in contrast to the consumerism of American society. Her work is philosophically centered by her political activism and strong American Indian spirituality. Over 35 years, she has developed a distinctive modernist style and had mastered a variety of aristic techniques. Her politically loaded subject matter ranges from cowboys and Indians to McDonald's and consumerism, reservation life, and war. The exhibition will include 34 pieces of her work over the last decade in drawing, printmaking, painting, and mixed-media installation.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America is presented at the Montclair Art Museum thanks to generous support from JPMorgan Chase and Merrill Lynch. Additional support has been provided by Linda and Brian Sterling in honor of Bobbi Brown and Steven Plofker. The show is organized by Charles Muir Lovell, Director of the Harwood Museum of Art,University of New Mexico for the Belger Arts Center for Creative Studies at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, as is circulated by TREX: The Traveling Exhibitions Program of the Museum of New Mexico |
Art Comforts, Art Remembers, Art Continues: September 11, 2001
September 16, 2006 January 14, 2007
This installation will commemorate the fifth anniversary of 9/11 by recreating the Montclair Art Museums presentation first displayed in 2002, a year after the tragic event. The American flag will be juxtaposed with the text Art Comforts, Art Remembers, Art Continues in bold monumental letters.
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Fred Kaboutie, Hopi Katsinas, 1937, Gouache on paper, Museum purchase; Acquisition Fund, 2006.3 |
American Indian Artists of the 1930s
September 16, 2006 January 14, 2007
Shelby Family Gallery
This exhibition will feature works from MAM's Permanent Collection that provided the foundation for contemporary Native American artists like Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. Works will include those by artists from the early Santa Fe movement (Ma-Pe-Wi, Awa Tsirch, Abel Sanchez/Oqwa Pi, and Fred Kabotie) that illustrate how Native American easel painting started. Made in America will present how it continues.
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Philippe Halsman, Georgia O'Keefe, 1948
Halsman Estate
| Phillippe Halsman: American Artists
September 16, 2006 January 14, 2007
Robert H. Lehman Court
One of the leading portrait photographers of the twentieth century, Philippe Halsman was best known for his provocative, penetrating portrayals of celebrities, politicians, and intellectuals which graced the pages of such major magazines as Life, Look, Esquire, and the Saturday Evening Post during the 1940s through the 70s. His portraits of leading American artists and cultural figures such as Warhol and O'Keeffe will be featured in this exhibition. Leading musical figures such as Marion Anderson and Louis Armstrong will be featured, as well as the pioneering dance figure Martha Graham, and the photographers Ansel Adams, Edward Steichen, Weegee, and Margaret Bourke-White. Also on view will be a self-portrait of Halsman and a family portrait which includes his daughter Irene Halsman, an artist in her own right, who resides in Montclair and is co-executor of the Halsman estate from which most of the photographs in the show are derived.
Commenting on his own work, Halsman observed, "This fascination with the human face has never left me. . . . Every face I see seems to hide and sometimes, fleetingly, to reveal the mystery of another human being. . . . Capturing this revelation became the goal and passion of my life."
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All Museum programs are made possible, in part, by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts; Suzanne and Jeffrey Citron; the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation; and Museum members.
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