Blue Corn - Polychrome Bowl with Rain and Mesa Designs (1970s)
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Blue Corn – Polychrome Bowl with Rain and Mesa Designs (1970s)

3.75"w x 2.5"h

$ 700.00

Blue Corn was one of the great innovative San Ildefonso potters of the late 1900s.  This is a classic smaller bowl that is fully polished with a tannish colored clay.  It is painted with a rain and mesa design around the body of the bowl.  It was traditionally fired to a rich, glassy coloration.  It is signed on the bottom, “Blue Corn”.  It is from the 1970s, and it is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.

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Blue Corn was one of the great innovative San Ildefonso potters of the late 1900s.  This is a classic small jar that is fully polished with a gray-white clay.  It is painted with four different colors of clay.  The designs are a series of bird tails and lightning designs.  It is a striking and colorful jar! It was traditionally fired to a rich, glassy coloration.  It is signed on the bottom, “Blue Corn”.  It is from the 1970s, and it is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.

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Blue Corn (1921 - 1999)

Blue Corn Crucita Calabaza

Blue Corn

Blue Corn was born "Crucita Calabaza" at San Ildefonso Pueblo. She learned to make pottery from her mother.  She attended school in Pueblo in her early years.  She then went to Santa Fe Indian School, 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 20, she married Santiago 'Sandy' Calabaza, 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 and her distinctive blackware. She made black-on-black, redware, and polychrome pots during her career.  In the late 1950s, Santiago Calabaza quit his day job and began working full-time with her, carving, painting, and designing.  In 1972 Joseph began working with Blue Corn after Santiago passed away.  Blue Corn is especially noted for her finely polished slips and her experiments with clays and colors, creating exceptional polychrome pottery. In 1981 she won the "Governor's Award," 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 a potter and a reflection of her creativity, she was posthumously awarded the 2008 "Lifetime Achievement Award" by SWAIA.  Her work can also be found in "Legacy of Generations."
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