id:			153029
accession number:	1986.1131
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1986.1131
updated:		2025-10-04 11:20:49.563000

Water Jar (Olla), before 1920. Maria Martinez (San Ildefonso Pueblo, about 1887–1980). Ceramic, slip; overall: 28.5 x 34 cm (11 1/4 x 13 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anonymous Gift, 1986.1131

title:				Water Jar (Olla)
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creation date:			before 1920
creation date earliest:		1897
creation date latest:		1920
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creditline:			Anonymous Gift
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culture:	Native North America, Southwest, New Mexico
technique:	ceramic, slip
department:	Art of the Americas
collection:	AA - Native North America
type:		Ceramic
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CREATORS

* Maria Martinez (San Ildefonso Pueblo, about 1887–1980)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 28.5 x 34 cm (11 1/4 x 13 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection
	opening date:   2010-03-07T00:00:00
	<i>Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 7-May 30, 2010).

	title:		Maria & Modernism
	opening date:   2024-02-24T05:00:00
	<i>Maria & Modernism</i>. Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ (organizer) (February 24-July 28, 2024).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?-1986
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1986-
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CITATIONS

	Pardue, Diana F., ed. <em>Maria and Modernism</em>, exh. cat. (Phoenix: Heard Museum, 2024).
	page number: 	Reproduced p. 143.
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	Bergh, Susan E. "Unburied Treasure." <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 45, no. 10 (December 2005): 4-7.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 7
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2005-10/page/4/mode/2up

	Adams, Henry.<em> What's American About American Art?: A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.
	page number: 	p. 27
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