This is a tightly painted jar by Rebecca Lucario.  She is known for her delicate and intricately painted pottery.  She uses traditional Acoma clay and paints with bee-weed (a plant) and clay slips.  Ever since one of her plates appeared on the cover of the “Changing Hands” exhibition catalog, her work has become iconic with fine-line and “op-art” style painting.  This jar has figures around the rim.  Around the center of the piece are interlocking fine-line stars.  There is simply a beautiful balance of shape and design on this piece. The bottom is the traditional Acoma red clay slip.  The jar is signed, “R. Lucario”.

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Lucario, Rebecca (b. 1951)

Rebecca Lucario

Rebecca Lucario is undoubtedly one of the great painters from Acoma Pueblo. She is known for her thin-walled pottery and the intricate designs painted on the surface. She is the granddaughter of Dolores Sanchez and sister of Marilyn Ray, Judy Lewis, and Carolyn Concho. She learned to make pottery from her grandmother Dolores and used traditional designs and Mimbres iconography in her work. Rebecca has won numerous awards for her pottery and featured in multiple books and on the cover of the "Changing Hands" book for the museum exhibition.

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