2018-12 Jar with corn and geometric motifs
This collection is particularly focused on Nampeyo and her descendants, thus the Nampeyo aesthetic is well represented. Jar 2018-12 is an interesting addition to this collection since it displays an attractive design that follows rules of beauty that are independent...
2018-10 Intricate star jar
Nathan Begaye was a brilliant, iconoclastic potter and this pot is representative of his best work. Thirty years after I first saw it and tried to buy it, it finally entered my collection. The form: The walls of this pot are thin, but not as thin as those of 2013-01...
2018-07 Tumbling Bird Bowl
The painting on the exterior of jars is more constrained by the shape of the vessel than the painting on the broad interior of bowls. While this collection has eight other pots by Fannie, this is the first bowl and the largest piece by her in the collection. As a...
2018-05 Navajo ceremonial tile
I have seen thick, low-relief carved Navajo clay tiles, but never a Navajo tile like 2018-05 that is 1) this thin nor 2) one that was this fully three dimensional, nor 3) one that depicted Navajo ceremonial life. Until recently, all Navajo pottery was utilitarian,...
