Rick Dillingham Glazed Columnar Wine Goblet, circa 1973 [R]

In an almost playful manner, Rick Dillingham created a single wine goblet of elegant yet casual appearance. The very standard round base gives way to a twisted tower that decreases in girth and spreads out to form the bowl.

The goblet is signed but I do not see a date when it was made.  One goblet we had in the past was dated 1973 so perhaps that is when he was making them.  Since these were probably made in 1973, they might have been a college project.

Dillingham received his Bachelor of Arts at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, in 1974. His Master of Fine Arts was completed in 1979 at California's Claremont College of Arts and Crafts. A recipient of several National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowships, Dillingham was renowned for his work in contemporary ceramics and for his scholarship of the pottery traditions of the North American Indian.

As a dealer of historic and contemporary Native American pottery, Dillingham used his knowledge to provide the finest in Pueblo pottery to his clientele and worked to create several magnificent exhibitions of Pueblo pottery.  He also published several books which are now often used as reference material.

Dillingham's own work reflected his interest in native pottery traditions, while his most famed forms, the shard vessels, are reflective of his restoration work at the Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe, where he formulated a paradigm of pots as a whole, made of many pieces. His works are broken in countless shards and variously decorated with glazes, gilded, or painted before reassembling.

This ceramic chalice has not been broken and reassembled—a style he was known for—but is complete as made.

Condition: original condition

Recommended Reading: 

Rick Dillingham 1952-1994: A Retrospective Exhibition by Author Unknown

Rick Dillingham: 1993 Distinguished Artist Award (Rotary Club of Santa Fe) by Suzanne Abel-Vidor, et al

Provenance: from a young gentleman collector of Native arts living here in Santa Fe