Object Details
- Artist
- Marie Watt, born Seattle, WA 1967
- Gallery Label
- Artist Marie Watt has asked, "What happens when American art includes Indigenous art in [the] narrative? How does that shift the stories we tell about what it means to be American?"
- In Edson's Flag, Watt, a member of the Seneca Nation, pays tribute to Indigenous warriors and war veterans, including her great-uncle Edson. She makes a unified piece from pieces that might not seem to fit easily together--a section of patchwork quilt, wool blankets evoking trade-goods (one army-green, one red), and an American flag. Invoking icons of America that are overtly connected to mainstream white culture, she summons an alternate set of associations from these same forms--specifically those related to intergenerational, Indigenous memory.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky in honor of Jane Beebe and Spencer Beebe
- Copyright
- © 2004, Marie K. Watt
- 2004
- Object number
- 2015.28.7
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Decorative Arts-Fiber
- Crafts
- Medium
- American flag (from U.S. military burial) with wool blankets, satin, and thread
- Dimensions
- 130 × 84 in. (330.2 × 213.4 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Renwick Gallery
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Object\other\flag
- Record ID
- saam_2015.28.7
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7b2f91557-7364-488a-a495-e72299a7a472
