Red Corrugated Acoma Pueblo Truncated Jar [SOLD]

Marie Z. Chino was certainly one of the Acoma potters who made particularly important contributions to the art of pottery making in the period following World War II. Chino was making pottery as early as the 1920s. Some of her pieces were among the prizewinners at the first Southwest Indian Fair in 1922.

Chino is considered one of the significant ceramicists at Acoma and was the matriarch of a very talented family of potters. She was one of the women who was inspirational in the movement to revive the use of ancient Mimbres designs on contemporary Acoma pottery.

This red slip tall-neck jar is a reintroduction of prehistoric corrugated wares. The corrugations are stamped with a design which, of course, is authentic to the period. The vessel is in excellent original condition. It is signed Made by Mrs. Marie Z. Chino, Acoma N. Mex. 8-21-58.

Provenance: From the estate of Transcendental artist Florence Pierce of Albuquerque who passed away in 2007 at the age of 89. She was best known for luminescent paintings made of pigmented resins on reflective surfaces. Her interest in abstraction began in the 1930s when she was an associate of the Transcendental Painting Group. The New York Times called her “the doyenne of abstract art in the Southwest” following her art exhibit in New York City in 2006.