Bird Hanging from Sky Band Design
This is a simple and somewhat thick shallow bowl of undistinguished form. It is interesting in this collection because it is signed “Grace” for “Grace Chapella” and this offers the collection a rendition of the “bird hanging from sky band” design that is by a...
Folk Art Butterfly Design
This is the “classic” Grace Chapella design for which she is best known. Rick Dillingham features her family (and therefore this butterfly design) in his Fourteen Families book (1994, 2-13). As noted in the description for pot 2010-22 (a Grace pot with a similar...
Folk Art Butterfly Design
The design on pot 2010-10 is the iconic Grace Chapella design. The 1977 catalog of a pottery exhibit held in her honor shows her holding such a pot (Collins 1977:9). On the website of the collection I publish a photograph of a Grace Chapella pot with this same design...
Folk Art Butterfly Design
Tewa-Hopi yellow-ware vase, butterfly design, 1940 (?), by Grace Chapella (unsigned). According to Dawny Cromwell, Public Education Director of the museum shop, Rex Bollin (who was selling several Hopi pots at the Museum on consignment) said this pot (and the four...
