Brain trauma drove Gloucester’s Jon Sarkin to become an artist. He died an outsider art legend. - The Boston Globe

Brain trauma drove Gloucester’s Jon Sarkin to become an artist. He died an outsider art legend. - The Boston Globe

A memorial exhibition on Cape Ann honors the one-of-a-kind creative force, who abandoned his career as a chiropractor after a stroke.

Artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Who Bore Witness to Native Life, Dies at 85

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, a groundbreaking visual artist, curator, and activist, died on Friday, January 24, at her home in Corrales, New Mexico, at the age of 85 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. The news of Smith’s death was announced by Garth Greenan Gallery, which has represented the artist since 2017.As part of a generation of Indigenous artists who tirelessly worked to “break the ‘buckskin ceiling'” in the art world, Smith (an en…

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Native American Artist and Activist, Has Died

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, the pioneering artist who mapped the Native American experience in dynamic and complex artworks, has died.

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, pathbreaking Native American artist, has died, aged 85

A champion of contemporary Indigenous artists, prolific creator across a range of media and relentless critic of dominant US ideology, Smith received institutional support and success late in life

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Painter Who Plotted a New Path for Native American Artists, Dies at 85

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, a painter who revolutionized the landscape genre and paved a path to success for generations of Native American artists that followed, died on January 24 at 85. Her death was confirmed by Garth Greenan Gallery, her New York–based representative. A citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Smith used her art to powerfully assert that she and other Native Americans bore a strong connection to the ancestral…