Tesuque Pueblo Pottery Polychrome Storyteller with 8 Children [SOLD]

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Arthur Vigil (1971 - )
  • Category: Figurines
  • Origin: Tesuque Pueblo, TET-SUGEH
  • Medium: clay, paint
  • Size: 7” tall x 8-1/4” long x 3-1/2” wide
  • Item # C3452F
  • SOLD

Arthur Vigil’s grandparents, Manuel and Vicenta Vigil, are famous potters from Tesuque Pueblo.  Manuel is credited with having made the first pueblo pottery nacimiento sometime in the 1950s.  He and she went on to produce many pottery figurines over a lifetime.  Now, their grandson, Arthur Vigil, is making figurines in the style of his famous grandparents.

 

This storyteller by the younger Vigil is totally different in presentation from his grandparent’s storyteller figurines but bears a similarity in folk-art style and bright paint colors.  He has chosen to emulate his grandparents without copying their style. 

 

According to Chuck Rosenak, Art Vigil was his neighbor in Tesuque years ago, and he attempted to get Art to make pottery but he had other endeavors to pursue so he made very little and Chuck does not think he is making pottery at all anymore.

 

We are fortunate to have this one storyteller to present.  I am not aware of any others on the market at this time.

 

Condition: very good condition

Provenance: from the collection of Chuck and Jan Rosenak, collectors of Native art and authors of books on Navajo folk art.

Recommended Reading: Storytellers and Other Figurative Pottery, by Douglas Congdon-Martin, 1999, Revised 2nd Edition. Schiffer Publishing.

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Arthur Vigil (1971 - )
  • Category: Figurines
  • Origin: Tesuque Pueblo, TET-SUGEH
  • Medium: clay, paint
  • Size: 7” tall x 8-1/4” long x 3-1/2” wide
  • Item # C3452F
  • SOLD

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