Al Qöyawayma Bronze titled “Corn Maiden” [SOLD]

This bronze sculpture of "Corn Maiden" by artist Al Qöyawayma is a modern manifestation of the most important personage to all Hopi. Every Hopi infant is given a corn mother (perhaps not the correct words), and it stays with them throughout life. Corn is very important to the Hopi and her representation in bronze by Al Qöyawayma is a beautiful rendition in a very contemporary or modern style.

All Qöyawayma is one of the most famous Hopi artists of the contemporary scene. He entered the art scene around 1970 and is still actively making pottery. Less known are his bronze sculptures but they are just as exciting as his unique pottery.

On the back near the base, the bronze is signed, dated, and numbered as Qöyawayma, 1992, 2/17.

Qöyawayma attributes his pottery style to his aunt, the famous Hopi potter Elizabeth White or Polingaysi Qöyawayma. It was she who started the all-natural clay pottery without slip or design. He added the sculptural aspect to his work while hers was simpler and unadorned.

"Al Qöyawayma is a ceramic artist, potter, and bronze sculptor. He's also a thinker of great thoughts, a Fulbright Scholar, a co-founder of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, a featured artist at the Smithsonian's permanent Archives of American Art as well as a physicist, astronomer, anthropologist, engineer, and educator." Indian Country Today

Condition: this Hopi Pueblo Bronze Sculpture "Corn Maiden" by Al Qöyawayma is in very good condition

Provenance: this Al Qöyawayma Bronze titled "Corn Maiden" is from the collection of a client of Adobe Gallery

Recommended Reading: Art of Clay: Timeless Pottery of the Southwest by Lee Cohen, Roger Kenedy

TAGS: Western Sculpture: Bronze, Contemporary Pottery, Hopi Pueblo, Elizabeth White - Polingaysi, AL Qöyawayma