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) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: before 1920 creation date earliest: 1897 creation date latest: 1920 current location: 231 Native North American creditline: Anonymous Gift copyright: --- culture: Native North America, Southwest, New Mexico technique: ceramic, slip department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Native North America type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * María Martinez (San Ildefonso Pueblo, c. 1887–1980) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 28.5 x 34 cm (11 1/4 x 13 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection opening date: 2010-03-07T00:00:00 Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art (March 7-May 30, 2010). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1986 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1986- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Maria Martinez of New Mexico’s San Ildefonso Pueblo may be the most famous of all Native American artists. digital description: wall 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—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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Adams, Henry. What's American About American Art?: A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008. page number: p. 27 url: --- IMAGES