id:			153029
accession number:	1986.1131
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1986.1131
updated:		2023-01-11 06:09:14.511000

Water Jar (Olla), before 1920. María Martinez (San Ildefonso Pueblo, c. 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
current location:		231 Native North American
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

* María Martinez (San Ildefonso Pueblo, c. 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 (March 7-May 30, 2010).

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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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fun fact:
Maria Martinez of New Mexico’s San Ildefonso Pueblo may be the most famous of all Native American artists.

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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—lustrous black wares venerated within and outside of Indigenous communities—grew 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.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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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