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Blue Corn – Polychrome Bowl with Blue Corn Design (1980’s)

7"w x 5"h

$ 2,300.00

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This is a striking large bowl by Blue Corn.  The bowl is a very round shape and it is fully polished with the white clay.  It is painted with a red clay for the designs.  Around the rim are rain and cloud designs.  Around the side of the bowl are corn patterns which are highlighted with a black clay.  However, the black clay has an almost-blusih tint in some light, which gives the piece a very striking appearance.  The bowl is signed on the bottom in the clay, “Blue Corn”.  It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration or repair. Certainly a classic by this important San Ildefonso potter.

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Blue Corn (1921 - 1999)

Blue Corn Pottery

Blue Corn was born "Crucita Calabaza" at San Ildefonso Pueblo. She learned to make pottery from her mother. Blue Corn attended school at the Pueblo in her early years. She then went to Santa Fe Indian school, which was 24 miles from home. While attending Indian School in Santa Fe her mother and father died and she was sent to live with relatives in Southern California. Here she worked as a maid for a short time in Beverly Hills. At the age of 20, Blue Corn married Santiago 'Sandy' Calabaza who was a silversmith from Santo Domingo pueblo. Together they settled at San Ildefonso where she bore and raised ten children. During World War II, Blue Corn worked as a housecleaner in Los Alamos for the physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer.She was renowned for her polychrome Blue Corn pottery but also for her distinctive blackware. In 1981 she won the "Governor's Award", which is New Mexico's highest artistic honor. Blue Corn Pottery was so exacting and innovative in her designs that over a decade after her passing, her pottery continues to be influential and highly sought after. In both a testament to her skill as an potter and a reflection of her creativity, she was posthumously awarded the 2008 "Lifetime Achievement Award" by SWAIA and her work can also be found in "Legacy of Generations".