The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 18, 2021

Carved Vessel

1994

Nancy Youngblood Lugo

(American, 1955-)

America, North American Indian, Santa Clara Pueblo, 20th century

Unglazed, reduction-fired pottery

Overall: 15 x 23.1 cm (5 7/8 x 9 1/8 in.)

James Albert and Mary Gardiner Ford Memorial Fund 1994.199

Location

231 Native North American

Description

The museum commissioned this vessel from Nancy Youngblood, who descends from generations of female potters of the Santa Clara Pueblo. She aims to perpetuate the traditional ceramic forms and methods of her forebearers. Thus, the vessel's shape echoes the pueblo's typical gourd-shaped ceramics, but its 32 hand-carved ribs are Youngblood's distinctive artistic signature.

Citations
Cleveland Museum of Art, “New Acquisitions Enter the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection,” February 14, 1995, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
Exhibition history

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

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).

Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art (March 7-May 30, 2010).

Source URL: https://web-collection-prod.clevelandart.org/art/1994.199