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San Ildefonso Pueblo Small Storage Jar Vessel by Santana and Adam Martinez - 25977

Category: Pottery | Posted by Adobe Gallery Team Member | Sat, May 20th 2017, 3:01pm

Santana and Adam Martinez Pottery - 25977Santana is best remembered as a collaborator with Maria Martinez, painting the designs on Maria's pottery after Julian passed away.  Santana and Adam also collaborated on pottery.  Santana made the pottery and Adam painted the designs.  Adam also did the firing of their pottery.  Adam surely was the one who gathered the clay for Santana and she most likely did all the clay processing.

 

Santana did not put Adam's name on their pottery in the early days but, then, someone said they saw a Santo Domingo jar with the name Santana on it, so Santana decided to add Adam's name to prevent confusion between their work and the work at Santo Domingo Pueblo.

 

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