Concho, Lolita – Large Water Jar with Rain and Flower Designs (1970s)

Lolita Concho is considered one of the Acoma revivalists in the 1960s-70s along with Marie Z. Chino, Lucy Lewis, and Jessie Garcia.  This is an excepotinal large water jar from the 1970s.  The piece is thin-walled and coil-built. The jar has a high shoulder and short neck. The entire surface is painted with bee-weed (black) and a red clay slip. There are four large flower medallions. Above them are rainbows and between them are additional flower motifs.  The thin lines represent the rain. Note throughout the jar the areas with the thin lines and the tiny rainclouds at the tips of the designs!  It is a striking and complicated piece and definitely an important representation of her pottery form and tightly painted designs.  The jar was traditionally fired so there are very subtle color variations on the surface.  It is signed on the bottom, “L. Concho”.  It is in very good condition with no chips, cracks, restoration or repair.

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Concho, Lolita Torivio (1914-2000)

Lolita Torivio Concho was among those potters helping to revive historic Acoma pottery designs and forms in the 1970s.  She was the daughter of Antonio and Teofilia Torivio.  She was a sister of Juanita Torivio, Mamie Torivio-Ortiz, Francis Torivio, and Connie Torivio Garcia. She was the mother-in-law of noted potter Dorothy Torivio and taught her the techniques for painting tight even lines.