Evelyn Ortiz (born 1938)
Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico
Circa 1990
Clay with slip and natural pigments
9 3/4 inches high, 10 1/2 inches diameter (24.8 x 26.7 cm)
Provenance: Private Albuquerque collection
A jar with a broad rounded shoulder rising from a narrow base and drawn in to a short flaring neck. The upper body is slipped white and painted in dark brown with an allover lattice of intersecting diagonals, meeting at eight point stars and dividing the surface into diamonds and triangles. The underbody below the design and the whole of the interior are slipped orange.
Every field within the lattice is filled by hand, some with nested triangles and others with groups of narrow parallel lines, drawn with a yucca brush at even spacing across the full circumference. The pattern is set out without a repeating template, and resolves cleanly where it closes around the jar. The vessel is sound throughout, with the painted surface unworn and no damage visible in the images.
Evelyn Ortiz was born at Acoma Pueblo in October 1938 and learned to make pottery as a child by helping her mother. She became active in the market during the 1950s, working principally in jars and bowls with occasional owl figures. She exhibited for many years at the Santa Fe Indian Market and at the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Arts and Crafts Show. Her designs draw on older Acoma and Ancestral Pueblo patterns, including stylized cloud and rain motifs, geometric layouts, and bird and animal forms. She passed the tradition to her daughter, the potter Judy Ortiz.
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Evelyn Ortiz (born 1938)
Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico
Circa 1990
Clay with slip and natural pigments
9 3/4 inches high, 10 1/2 inches diameter (24.8 x 26.7 cm)
Provenance: Private Albuquerque collection
A jar with a broad rounded shoulder rising from a narrow base and drawn in to a short flaring neck. The upper body is slipped white and painted in dark brown with an allover lattice of intersecting diagonals, meeting at eight point stars and dividing the surface into diamonds and triangles. The underbody below the design and the whole of the interior are slipped orange.
Every field within the lattice is filled by hand, some with nested triangles and others with groups of narrow parallel lines, drawn with a yucca brush at even spacing across the full circumference. The pattern is set out without a repeating template, and resolves cleanly where it closes around the jar. The vessel is sound throughout, with the painted surface unworn and no damage visible in the images.
Evelyn Ortiz was born at Acoma Pueblo in October 1938 and learned to make pottery as a child by helping her mother. She became active in the market during the 1950s, working principally in jars and bowls with occasional owl figures. She exhibited for many years at the Santa Fe Indian Market and at the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Arts and Crafts Show. Her designs draw on older Acoma and Ancestral Pueblo patterns, including stylized cloud and rain motifs, geometric layouts, and bird and animal forms. She passed the tradition to her daughter, the potter Judy Ortiz.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
