Gonzales, Juanita – Red Bowl with Carved Avanyu (1930’s)
$ 650.00
This bowl is one of the very few red pieces we have seen by Juanita Gonzales. It is carved with the cameo style which Juanita learned from Rose Gonzales. It has an avanyu or water serpent encircling the piece. Extending down from the rim are cloud and lightning designs. The bowl is highly polished and the red is a deep coloration. The background area that was carved way is also slipped with red clay (not the later buff colored clay), which indicates this is an earlier piece. The bowl is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair. The bowl is signed on the bottom in the clay, “Juanita”. It is great to find one of their red pieces in such wonderful condition!
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This bowl is one of the very few red pieces we have seen by Juanita Gonzales. It is carved with the cameo style which Juanita learned from Rose Gonzales. It has an avanyu or water serpent encircling the piece. Extending down from the rim are cloud and lightning designs. The bowl is highly polished and the red is a deep coloration. The bowl is in very good condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair. The bowl is signed on the bottom in the clay, “Juanita”. It is great to find one of their red pieces in such wonderful condition!
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Gonzales, Juanita (1900 - 1988)
Juanita Gonzales was originally from Taos Pueblo. She married Louis "Wo-Peen" Gonzales (1907-1990) who was a son of Juan and Philomena Gonzales and his Tewa name, "Wo-Peen" means Medicine Mountain. She met him in a hospital after he lost his arm in a hunting accident. Louis was a gifted artist and attended the San Ildefonso School of painters in the 1920s. After he lost his right arm in an accident he taught himself to paint again with his left hand. Juanita learned to make pottery from her sister-in-law, Rose Gonzales (1909-1989). Rose is credited with beginning the carved pottery style at San Ildefonso in the early 1930's. The carved pottery by Juanita has a very similar style of carving and imagery as with Rose's work. While Juanita made the vessels, she also did the carving, while Louis did the painting of any designs.