Tenorio, Robert – Large Bowl with Train and Pueblo

9.5"w x 6.25"h

$ 775.00

This is a creative large bowl by Robert Tenorio.  The bowl is painted with wild spinach (black) and red and copper-colored clay slips.  The top half of the bowl has a train with the various cars all the way to the caboose.  There is the church at Kewa with surrounding pueblo buildings.  In the area in front of the train are the buildings and women from the Pueblo with their pottery.  There are turkeys, a woman beaking bread, a girl with her wagon, and someone firing pottery!  It is amazing how much detail and story there is on this piece!  Robert says that his train pots remind him of the older days when the Kewa village would hear the train whistle and come out to watch it pass by.  The inside of the bow is micaceous and there is an impressed hand design.  The bowl is traditionally fired.  It is signed on the bottom in the clay, “Robert Tenorio, Kewa”.