Vase
Arts of the Americas
On View: American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, Imagining the New Nation’s Landscape, 1800–1880
When I'm doing my pottery I think of Mom [Marie Z. Chino] first, and that she could help me. I want to do like she does. She didn't need outlining, she just painted, and sometimes I do that now I know the design and I just do it.
-Grace Chino, quoted in Rick Dillingham, Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery (1994)
The Chino family, led by the matriarch Marie Z. Chino, was innovative in adapting the designs found on prehistoric pottery shards to modern pottery forms. Grace Chino here used a dazzling, closely lined black-and-white design on a new vessel form reminiscent of ancient Pueblo pots. The result is a form of abstraction that embraces tradition as essential to innovation.
MEDIUM
Clay, slip
DATES
1989
DIMENSIONS
15 x 36 3/8 in. (38.1 x 92.4cm)
diameter at top: 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Arts of the Americas
ACCESSION NUMBER
1990.68
CREDIT LINE
Augustus Graham School of Design Fund
PROVENANCE
June 21, 1990, purchased from Mudd-Carr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM by the Brooklyn Museum.
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CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Clay pot with overall dark brown and cream-white design except for bottom area which is undecorated cream-white. The Chaco Canyon stepped design decreases as it moves from the lower, bulbous body of the pot to the upper, cylindrical neck, giving the viewer the illusion of greater depth in space.
Condition: Excellent
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is on view in American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, Imagining the New Nation’s Landscape, 1800–1880
CAPTION
Grace Chino (Haak’u (Acoma Pueblo), 1929–1995). Vase, 1989. Clay, slip, 15 x 36 3/8 in. (38.1 x 92.4cm). Brooklyn Museum, Augustus Graham School of Design Fund, 1990.68. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1990.68_PS20.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 1990.68_PS20.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2024
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