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This plainware jar is the perfect foil for jar 2020-20, the other recent addition to this collection by Jake Koopee. Whereas jar 2020-20 is packed with design leaving almost no surface on the pot without paint, jar 2022-02 obviously carries no paint (except for the...
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The most accomplished Pueblo potters today produce work that is both innovative and precise (cf 2018-08 and 2020-02). Categorized as “fine art,” such work can sell for a great deal of money. Seedjar 2021-16 belongs to an earlier era when pueblo pottery was...
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This pot has a unique shape and a realistic design crafted to fit that shape.. More than any other pot in the collection, form and design work together to create an explicit visual story. I’m enchanted; Les does not remember making the pot. Les is a...
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The conical form of this pot makes it unsteady, though visually dramatic. It is not particularly large, but because of its unusual shape virtually all of its surface is visible and available to decorate. Eleven unattached design motifs float across this broad...
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Irma David’s pottery designs are often curvilinear with gaps between the elements. On this jar she has created space in her design to insert butterflies on opposite sides of the pot. Her designs are distinctive, perhaps because the dense curved designs create...
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1)The design on this bowl is exfoliated and worn; the jar itself is cracked. 2) The design is evidence of the genius of its maker, Nampeyo of Hano. Both statements are true, but the second is far more important than the first. For a collection that is trying to...
