Vase
1989
Grace Chino
Haak’u (Acoma Pueblo), 1929-1995
Arts of the Americas
When I'm doing my pottery I think of Mom [Marie Z. Chino] first, and that she could help me. I want to do like she does. She didn't need outlining, she just painted, and sometimes I do that now I know the design and I just do it.
-Grace Chino, quoted in Rick Dillingham, Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery (1994)
The Chino family, led by the matriarch Marie Z. Chino, was innovative in adapting the designs found on prehistoric pottery shards to modern pottery forms. Grace Chino here used a dazzling, closely lined black-and-white design on a new vessel form reminiscent of ancient Pueblo pots. The result is a form of abstraction that embraces tradition as essential to innovation.
- Maker/Artist
- Chino, Grace
- Classification
- Vessel
- Formatted Medium
- Clay, slip
- Locations
- Place made: Acoma, New Mexico, United States
- Dimensions
- 15 x 36 3/8 in. (38.1 x 92.4cm) diameter at top: 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm)
- Departments
- Arts of the Americas
- Accession Number
- 1990.68
- Credit Line
- Augustus Graham School of Design Fund
- Exhibitions
- American Identities: A New Look
- Rights Statement
- Creative Commons-BY
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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