Lupe Lucero Small Male Storyteller Figurine with 4 Children [SOLD]

This small male seated storyteller figurine by San Felipe Pueblo Potter Leonora Lupe Loretto Lucero is holding four children on his legs.  Two of them have drums.  The figurine is painted in two colors—cream and rust red, the same colors used by her sister, Alma Concha of Taos Pueblo.  Lupe originally used polychrome colors when she was at Jemez but seems to have switched after moving to San Felipe Pueblo.

Lupe Lucero (b. 1943) is the sister of other well-known Pueblo potters: Alma Concha, Mary E. Toya, Fannie Loretto, Edna Coriz and Dorothy Trujillo.  Lupe is originally from Jemez Pueblo but married into San Felipe Pueblo.  She has been actively making figurative pottery since the beginning of the 1970s.  She makes clowns, storytellers and nacimientos, mostly. 

This storyteller was purchased by Adobe Gallery from Lupe in May 1983 and then sold to the client from whom we now have it back. It is in original condition.

Recommended Reading: The Pueblo Storyteller: Development of a Figurative Ceramic Tradition by Barbara Babcock Ph.D.

Relative Links: Alma Concha, Mary E. Toya, Edna Coriz, Dorothy Trujillo, Jemez Pueblo; San Felipe Pueblo, Contemporary Pottery, Leonora Lupe Loretto Lucero