Mary Calengor is known for her highly detailed realism painted in oil on linen and canvas.  There is amazing detail in her art along with an intuitive sense of how she captures the light on her subjects.  This painting is entitled, “Planting Season“.  Mary says of this painting:

This piece of San Ildefonso pottery dates back to the early 1900s (approximately 1900-1918).  At this time, production of utilitarian Pueblo pottery had greatly declined and only a few women were actually registered as potters by occupation.  I do not know who exactly created this vessel but the unique treatment around the lip and the designs are so beautiful.  These details represent the planting season.  The rim depicts the plowed fields, as you move down the pot there are the rain storms, and then finally near the bottom, you have the corn.