Tularosa Style Design Water Jar [SOLD]

A strikingly beautiful Acoma Pueblo polychrome water jar with a high shoulder and a long, graceful neck. The intricate black-and-white Tularosa-style design is a series of curvilinear, rectilinear, and fine-line elements combined in an Escher-like manner that is as contemporary as any design and yet reflects its roots of a thousand years ago. This jar is unquestionably the work of Mary Histia; it is signed on the bottom simply Acoma New Mexico.

Histia deserves to be classed as a Modernist. Her art is old, yet alive and dynamic—an expression of a continuing vigor. She did not confine her art to a mere repetition of her previous work, nor did she resort to meaningless geometric designs, but she continually experimented and added to her repertoire. Her designs are at once classic and modern.