Curated by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, “The Land Carries Our Ancestors” showcases contemporary work by roughly 50 Indigenous artists.
“Edward Curtis, Paparazzi: Chicken Hawks,” by Jim Denomie, is on view in the National Gallery of Art exhibition “The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans.” It wasn’t until 2020 that the National Gallery of Art made its first acquisition of a painting by a Native American artist: “Target,” a 1992 mixed-media work by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, a citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation in Montana.
“Usually, what you see in a museum is antiquities, as though we’re all dead and we are not here anymore,” Smith says, adding that most Americans know of only the largest two or three of the 574 federally recognized tribes, such as the Navajo, Cherokee and Sioux.Of the roughly 50 artists in the intergenerational exhibition, all are living, except Jim Denomie , who died in 2022 after his darkly humorous painting “Edward Curtis, Paparazzi: Chicken Hawks” had already been selected.
Particularly striking is “Impact vs. Influence” by John Hitchcock , a site-specific installation that fills parts of two walls and the ceiling with black-and-white cutout images of wild animals, birds, helicopters, a tank and geometric symbols. Hitchcock, who describes the work as drawing on his childhood growing up on Comanche tribal lands next to the Fort Sill military base in Oklahoma, says he found particular importance in bringing it to the National Gallery.
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