Canteens, Effigy, Kitsch
This collection contains 5 other pots by Nellie, who has a reputation of being an indifferent potter and painter. Occasionally one finds a superior example of her work (cf 2010-04) and pot 2024-05, described here, is one of these well-formed and painted examples....
Effigy, Kitsch
This sandal is pure kitsch, and like all great kitsch it makes me smile: especially those little toe prints. Obviously it is tourist art and I don’t know if it was peddled with a purpose. I think of it as a napkin ring. Well-formed and carefully painted, it...
Kitsch
This is a simple tourist kitsch by an accomplished potter who could produce pots of high artistic quality. Like the cowboy ashtray by Nampeyo (also painted by Fannie, 2011-32), I include this pot in the collection to demonstrate the range of production required of...
Effigy, Kitsch
5.063” h (including about 0.9” of handle above the rim) X 6.0” w X 10.125” long including the two mountain sheep heads, one short-necked head is about 1.75” long the other, longer-necked head is about 2.5” long The form of this bowl is “exocentric,” different than...
Kitsch
This is the definitive tourist pot. Ashtrays for sale to tourists were a mainstay of the low-end Hopi pottery market from the turn of the century to at least the 1950s, but the cowboy hat motif makes this form the height of kitsch. Katharine Bartlett,...
