Lucas, Steve - "Red Tail Hawks" Four Color Jar
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Lucas, Steve – “Red Tail Hawks” Four Color Jar

8"w x 6"h

$ 2,800.00

This is a complex jar by Steve Lucas.  He is one of the leading Hopi-Tewa potters working today.  Each piece is coil-built, stone-polished, painted with native clay slips and bee-weed (black), and traditionally fired.  This jar has a round shape and sloping side.  The rim and base are fully polished red.  The top of the shoulder has Red Tail Hawk tail feathers and wing designs.  It is painted with both red and brown clay slips.  Below the shoulder are “old-style” bird wing and mesa designs.  It is a very tightly painted jar with a lot of small, polished sections.  The jar was traditionally fired to create the blushes on the surface.  It is signed on the bottom in the clay, “S. Lucas” and a mudhead (koyemsi) and an ear of corn (corn clan).

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This is a complex large jar by Steve Lucas.  He is one of the leading Hopi-Tewa potters working today.  Each piece is coil-built, stone-polished, painted with native clay slips and bee-weed (black), and traditionally fired.  This jar has a wide shoulder and sloping top. The top of the jar has three old-style macaws near the rim.  Macaw parrots are a part of Hopi culture, with a Parrot clan and Parrot katsina.  The sides of the jar has very detailed designs with birds and katsinas.  The katinsas faces and birds are all intermixed on the top of the jar.  I’m always fascinated how Steve can minimalize various katsina faces into simple geometrics.   The bottom has stippling with the little black dots.  The jar was traditionally fired to create the blushes on the surface.  It is signed on the bottom in the clay, “S. Lucas” and a mudhead (koyemsi) and an ear of corn (corn clan).

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Lucas, Steve (b. 1955)

Steve Lucas

Steve Lucas

Steve Lucas (b.1955) is a great-great-grandson of Nampeyo of Hano.  His grandmother was Rachel Nampeyo, and his great-grandmother was Annie Healing.  While Steve grew up around potters, he primarily learned the art from his aunt, Dextra Quotskuyva Nampeyo.  His pottery is amazingly thin-walled, and each piece has a dynamic use of form and design.  The pottery is coil-built, stone-polished, traditionally painted, and native-fired.  Steve uses traditional designs and often gives his own creative spin to the ancient imagery.  His pottery is signed with his name and the Mudhead symbol, or Koyemsi. This is reflective of his Hopi-Tewa clan.  Steve Lucas has won numerous awards for his pottery, including "Best of Show" at Santa Fe Indian Market. In addition, Steve is a featured artist in the book by the gallery owner, Charles S. King, 'Spoken Through Clay.'  We are pleased to carry Steve's work at our Scottsdale and Santa Fe locations. PLEASE NOTIFY ME OF NEW ADDITIONS FROM THIS ARTIST
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