Santa Clara Pueblo Red Deep Pottery Bowl with Hummingbird Designs by Grace Medicine Flower [SOLD]

This deep open pottery bowl made by Grace Medicine Flower of Santa Clara Pueblo evokes the look of a rose open to the birds and insects that would come to pollinate it.  The irregular rim shape enforces that thought with its shape of rose petals. The design medallion features a hummingbird hovering over a rose blossom.  Other hummingbirds, in sgraffito style, appear on other sections of the bowl. The jar is signed but not dated.

Grace Medicine Flower (b.1938) is a member of the renowned Tafoya family of Santa Clara Pueblo.  Her grandmother was Sara Fina Tafoya. Her parents were Camilio Sunflower Tafoya (brother of Margaret Tafoya) and Agapita Yellow Flower Tafoya.  Her brother was the equally famous Joseph Lonewolf. She started her pottery career making traditional deep carved pottery before she and her brother Joseph transitioned to sgraffito carving in the early 1970s.

Condition: this Santa Clara Pueblo Red Deep Pottery Bowl with Hummingbird Designs by Grace Medicine Flower is in excellent original condition

Provenance: from a client who has found it necessary to downsize her pottery collection

Recommended Reading: The Pottery Jewels of Joseph Lonewolf by Jon Young

Relative Links: Contemporary Pottery, Grace Medicine Flower, Santa Clara Pueblo, Sara Fina Tafoya, Camilio Sunflower Tafoya Agapita Yellow Flower Tafoya, Joseph Lonewolf