Santa Clara Pueblo Black Sculpted Pottery Jar with Swirls by Denny Gutierrez [SOLD]

Santa Clara Pueblo artist Denny Gutierrez was a potter producing well-balanced and beautifully burnished blackware. This swirl melon jar features well-proportioned and spaced swirl ribs from top to bottom of the jar.  The slant of the ribs were designed to reflect light which they do beautifully. It is a graceful jar and in original condition.  

Denny (1942-2013) was the son of Katherine Gutierrez and had won awards at the Santa Fe Indian Market every year for a decade. The jar is signed Denny Gutierrez Santa Clara and dated ’93.

Condition: this Santa Clara Pueblo Black Sculpted Pottery Jar with Swirls by Denny Gutierrez is in very good condition

Provenance: from a collection of contemporary pottery of a family from New Jersey

Recommended Reading: Pueblo Indian Pottery: 750 Artist Biographies by Gregory Schaaf

Relative Links: Santa Clara Pueblo, Katherine Gutierrez, pottery, Denny Gutierrez