Lewis, Lucy – Bowl with Rain Clouds and Lightning (1980s)

4.5"w x 3"h

$ 725.00

Lucy Lewis is one of the great Matriarch potters of the past century. This bowl is from the 1980s.  It is a very traditional Acoma design.  There are rain clouds and lightning patterns.  The black is bee-weed and the red is an additional clay slip.  It is signed on the bottom, “Lucy M. Lewis”.  It is in excellent condition with no cracks, restoration, or repair.

“There was a time a long time ago when Acoma pottery had almost died out. Lucy revived it, she kept it going. We saw photos of the Mimbres pottery for the first time in the late fifties. Lucy had been doing fine-line designs much earlier, from the sherds. She had developed several different ways of doing those lines. Some of her designs were similar to the Mimbres ones, and when she saw those she went on developing more of her own.” Dolores Lewis, Spoken Through Clay

“There was a time a long time ago when Acoma pottery had almost died out. Lucy revived it, she kept it going. We saw photos of the Mimbres pottery for the first time in the late fifties. Lucy had been doing fine-line designs much earlier, from the sherds. She had developed several different ways of doing those lines. Some of her designs were similar to the Mimbres ones, and when she saw those she went on developing more of her own.” Dolores Lewis, Spoken Through Clay