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Artist (American, 1952 - 1994)
Date1972
Mediumceramic
Dimensions4 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. (11.4 x 14.6 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of the Linda Cordell Estate, 2013
Object number2013.29
DescriptionA small spherical jar composed of two clay sections joined at the equator of the vessel with textures and designs that emphasize the bifurcation of the object.
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Rick Dillingham was an influential ceramic artist and important scholar of Native American ceramics. While an undergraduate at UNM during the early 1970s, he broke out of the popular craft tradition and began appropriating visual aspects of prehistoric Ancestral Pueblo pottery and Native artists. Dillingham created this work in a Native American ethnography class that Linda Cordell was teaching during her first year at UNM. The work was created and fired as part of the class in Cordell’s backyard.
Based on a conversation with Dillingham's longtime assistant Juliet Myers in August 2017, she stated that Dillingham had a specific tripartite numbering system he used for cataloging his works. The catalog numbering goes as follows: first is the month in which the work was completed, second is the year the work was made and third is the number order in which the piece was made.
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Jar
Rick Dillingham
1979-82
Globe
Rick Dillingham
Large Cylinder
Rick Dillingham
Rick Dillingham, Pierced Vessel, 1973, pit fired earthenware, 10 1/2 × 12 × 13 in. Collection o…
Rick Dillingham
1973
No title (gas can)
Rick Dillingham
1973
Rick Dillingham, Untitled Ceramic Vessel, 1985-1986, ceramic, gold leaf, enamel and glue, 12 x …
Rick Dillingham
February 1980
Green globe
Rick Dillingham
Globe
Rick Dillingham
1977
Pierced Vessel
Rick Dillingham
1973