San Ildefonso Pueblo Black on Black Small Pottery Jar by Blue Corn [SOLD]

This small black-on-black jar by Blue Corn of San Ildefonso Pueblo dates from the 1980s.  The upper half is decorated with a continuous row of vertical eagle feathers. Above the design of feathers is a single framing line and below the feathers is another single framing line.  The jar is signed Blue Corn San Ildefonso Pueblo on the underside.

Blue Corn was born in San Ildefonso around 1921 and was encouraged by her grandmother, at an early age, to "forget school and become a potter." She did attend school at the pueblo and later at the Santa Fe Indian School, however. At age 20, she married Santiago, a Kewa Pueblo (Santo Domingo) silversmith. During the 1940s, she worked at Los Alamos as a housecleaner for J. Robert Oppenheimer. Shortly after World War II, she took up pottery making and found her calling.  Blue Corn passed away in 1999.

Condition: this San Ildefonso Pueblo Black on Black Small Pottery Jar by Blue Corn is in original condition

Provenance: from the collection of John Barry, author of American Indian Pottery: An Identification and Value Guide

Relative Links: Maria and Julian, San Ildefonso, Kewa Pueblo - Santo Domingo, Southwest Indian Pottery, Crucita Gonzales Calabaza - Blue Corn