LegacyStoriesProcessConnections

Storage Jar, Trinidad Medina, c. 1945
Storage Olla, Margaret Tafoya, 1940 & Wedding Jar, Nestor Silva, 1951
Melon Jar, Andrew Padilla, 1995 & Seed Jar, Dorothy Torivio, 1982
Jar, Lonnie Vigil, 1990
 

PUEBLO POTTERY TRADITIONS

The Buchsbaum Gallery features each Pueblo in a selection of pieces that represent the development of a community tradition.
  • Taos and Picuris Pueblos, with their micaceous clays and traditional cooking wares
  • San Juan Pueblo, renowned for striking incised, carved, and painted vessels
  • Santa Clara Pueblo, with its modern tradition of highly polished, beautifully-formed jars
  • Nambe and Pojoaque Pueblos, reestablishing classic forms today
  • San Ildefonso Pueblo, known for lustrous polished and decorated pieces in red and black
  • Tesuque Pueblo, famous in the last century for lush naturalistic painting
  • Cochiti Pueblo, with its world-renowned figurative pieces and fine painting
  • Santo Domingo, with dynamic abstract compositions and larger works
  • Zia Pueblo, known for fluid paintings on bowls and ollas
  • Santa Ana, important historically for its architectural forms and designs
  • Sandia, San Felipe, and Jemez Pueblos, which are re-introducing polychrome painting
  • Zuni Pueblo, well-known for the beauty of its painted jar designs
  • Laguna and Acoma Pueblos, which share a tradition of classically worked larger jars, as well as tremendous fine-line painting
  • Isleta Pueblo, creating new and eclectic forms
  • Hopi Pueblo, whose potters work in complex compositions of unique shapes and extraordinary painting