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Artist (American, San Ildefonso Pueblo, 1887 - 1980)
Artist (American, San Ildefonso Pueblo, 1885 - 1943)
Datecirca 1925
Mediummatte-on-black ceramic
Dimensions2 3/8 x 13 in. (6 x 33 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of Lois Shively, 2013
Object number2013.14.2
Descriptionplate with frieze of a feather fan motif
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Maria and Julian Martinez are prime examples of experimental Native American pottery that quickly developed into the traditional pottery of San Ildefonso Pueblo in the twentieth century. This work of art exemplifies the category of a New Mexico prime object of aesthetic change that fits the museum’s mission as the state’s art museum. This is also an example of the works that developed from Edgar Lee Hewett’s Santa Fe Program encouraging “revivals” of Native arts 1910 to 1923. The plate form is one that Maria perfected the form, and Julian’s painting of the feather fan motif comes from Mimbres designs after Walter Fewkes published this design in the early 1920s, for the tourist market.
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Maria Martinez
circa 1925
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Maria Martinez
circa 1950
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Maria Martinez
circa 1935
Black-on-black bowl
Maria Martinez
1943-1954
Untitled (plate)
Thomas Barrow
1994
Fan I
Dana Newmann
2008
Fan II
Dana Newmann
2008
Time of Reflection
Eddie Dominguez
2001
Untitled
MARTINEZ, Raul
1981