id: 157335
accession number: 1994.199
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.199
updated: 2022-10-29 16:02:27.135000
Swirl Melon Bowl, 1994. Nancy Youngblood (Santa Clara Pueblo, b. 1955). Ceramic, slip; overall: 15 x 23.1 cm (5 7/8 x 9 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, James Albert and Mary Gardiner Ford Memorial Fund 1994.199
title: Swirl Melon Bowl
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creation date: 1994
creation date earliest: 1994
creation date latest: 1994
current location: 231 Native North American
creditline: James Albert and Mary Gardiner Ford Memorial Fund
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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
* Nancy Youngblood (Santa Clara Pueblo, b. 1955) - artist
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measurements: Overall: 15 x 23.1 cm (5 7/8 x 9 1/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00
The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).
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).
title: Designed by Women
opening date: 2023-02-18T05:00:00
Designed by Women. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (organizer) (February 18-June 4, 2023).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", no. 138, p. 124, repr. p. 90.
CMA 2010: "Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection" March 7 - May 30, 2010
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PROVENANCE
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Nancy Youngblood is known for “melon” jars with deep, perfectly regular, hand-carved ribs—here, 32 swirl dramatically around the chamber, each polished to a sheen. Youngblood belongs to Santa Clara Pueblo’s fabled Tafoya pottery family and she is committed to preserving family techniques and forms, including the melon. She works in black ware, a Santa Clara tradition, and takes no shortcuts, offering a prayer before digging her own clay, building the vessel with clay coils, patiently polishing with handed-down polishing stones, and firing in an open fire rather than a kiln.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Cleveland Museum of Art, “New Acquisitions Enter the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection,” February 14, 1995, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr3939/page/n1
Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 89-90, no. 138
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