Folwell, Susan – “Buffalo Hunters”

6.5"w x 8"h

$ 1,400.00

Susan Folwell is one of the exciting innovators in Pueblo pottery. Her work in native clay but she is constantly experimenting with techniques and clays.  This jar is rag polished and it is both incised and painted.  Around the neck of the jar are a series of trains, each etched into the clay.  Above the trains are the Folwell family “x’s”, which here are symbolic for stars.  On the remainder of the jar there are horses stamped into the clay with ink and mica. However, the modernist take on this jar is the buffalo hunt itself. The horses take to the background and the buffalo are etched into the clay and then slipped.  The Buffalo Hunters are riding around on mopeds and motorcycles!  Susan has designed it all in a ledger art style.  Susan says the commentary is on the modernization of culture and maybe if the Buffalo hunters of the late 1800’s, shooting from the trains, had not nearly made the buffalo extinct, maybe the hunters of today would be on the mopeds.  The unique shape of the jar adds to the overall impact of the piece with the low shoulder and asymmetrical rim, are part of the innovative clay work in her pottery.  It is signed on the bottom in the clay.