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        "tombstone": "Water Jar (Olla), before 1920. Maria Martinez (San Ildefonso Pueblo, about 1887\u20131980). 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",
        "current_location": null,
        "title": "Water Jar (Olla)",
        "creation_date": "before 1920",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1897,
        "creation_date_latest": 1920,
        "artists_tags": [
            "female",
            "Indigenous"
        ],
        "culture": [
            "Native North America, Southwest, New Mexico"
        ],
        "technique": "ceramic, slip",
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        "department": "Art of the Americas",
        "collection": "AA - Native North America",
        "type": "Ceramic",
        "measurements": "Overall: 28.5 x 34 cm (11 1/4 x 13 3/8 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
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                "height": 0.285,
                "height_inch": 11,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.25,
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                "width_inch": 13,
                "width_inch_fraction": 0.375
            }
        },
        "state_of_the_work": null,
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        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 229358,
                    "title": "Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection",
                    "description": "<i>Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 7-May 30, 2010).",
                    "opening_date": "2010-03-07T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 540619,
                    "title": "Maria & Modernism",
                    "description": "<i>Maria & Modernism</i>. Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ (organizer) (February 24-July 28, 2024).",
                    "opening_date": "2024-02-24T05:00:00"
                }
            ],
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        },
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            {
                "description": "Gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "?-1986",
                "sortorder": 1
            },
            {
                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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        "did_you_know": "Maria Martinez of New Mexico\u2019s San Ildefonso Pueblo may be the most famous of all Native American artists.",
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        "description": "Maria Martinez of San Ildefonso Pueblo, perhaps the most famous of all Indigenous artists, was crucial to transforming modern Native American ceramics from utilitarian wares into fine decorative arts. She developed her mastery while young, learning traditional techniques from other Pueblo women. The style for which she is known\u2014lustrous black wares venerated within and outside of Indigenous communities\u2014grew in part from study of ceramic fragments at ancient, Ancestral Pueblo sites. This large, beautifully proportioned water jar is one of her earliest efforts in the style, its dark color imparted by the firing technique.",
        "external_resources": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60780836"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Pardue, Diana F., ed. <em>Maria and Modernism</em>, exh. cat. (Phoenix: Heard Museum, 2024).",
                "page_number": "Reproduced p. 143.",
                "url": ""
            },
            {
                "citation": "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"
            },
            {
                "citation": "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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            }
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        "creditline": "Anonymous Gift",
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                "description": "Maria Martinez (San Ildefonso Pueblo, about 1887\u20131980)",
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1987-03-16T00:00:00",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:51:20.502000"
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