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Maria Martinez Pottery
MARIA MARTINEZ PUEBLO POTTERY AND TONY DA CERAMICS
Left to right: Maria Martinez & Popovi Da – San Ildefonso Black on Black Pottery Bowl with Avanyu Design, Maria Martinez & Julian Martinez – San Ildefonso Polychrome Pictorial Tile with Eagle Dancer, Maria Martinez – San Ildefonso Black on Black Geometric Design Pottery Vase, Tony Da – San Ildefonso Bear with Turquoise, Tony Da – San Ildefonso Sienna Black on Black Avanyu Pottery Jar with Four Kingman Turquoise Stones
Maria Martinez the San Ildefonso potter is considered to be the most famous Pueblo potter. She worked with her husband Julian who was a renowned painter and who invented black on black pottery. After Julian’s death in 1943 she worked with her daughter-in-law Santana Roybal whose brother was the well known silversmith and painter Awa Tsireh (Alfonso Roybal). in 1956 she started working with her son Popovi who invented sienna pottery and was the first to inlay turquoise into pottery. Popovi brought back the early polychrome pottery as
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The Life of Maria Martinez
Maria Martinez (1887-1980)
Maria Martinez meets Enrico Fermi, 1948
Maria Martinez pottery for sale
San Ildefonso Polychrome
Signature: Maria + Popovi
Undoubtedly the world's most famous Native American potter, Maria Montoya Martinez was born in the Tewa pueblo of San Ildefonso around 1887. As she grew up, Maria observed her aunt, Nicolasa, and learned the basics of the traditional art of pottery making from her.
In the early years of her career, Maria produced the traditional polychrome pottery of her village, generally black and terra cotta decorations painted on a background of white or tan. She shaped her pots the age-old way, by carefully hand-coiling and pinching the clay, then smoothing the inner and outer surfaces with gourd scrapers. Early on her pots were recognized as the thinnest, most beautifully shaped pots being made at San Ildefonso. Her husband, Julian, an accomplished painter of hides, paper and walls, decorated the pots for her, then worked with her in the firing of them.
Black on black jar
Signature: Marie (painte
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Maria Martinez
Artist
born San Ildefonso Pueblo, NM 1886-died San Ildefonso Pueblo, NM 1980
- Also known as
- Maria Montoya Martinez
- Poveka
- Maria Poveka Martinez
- Maria
- Maria Povera Martinez
- Born
- San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, United States
- Died
- San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, United States
- Active in
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
- Biography
Although Julian Martinez (San Ildefonso Pueblo) created many paintings on paper, he is best known for his collaborations with his wife, the potter Maria Martinez (San Ildefonso Pueblo). Maria formed and polished the elegant vessels and Julian applied the painted decoration. Although they occasionally created vessels with colored designs, the couple gained an international reputation for their wok with matte black decorations on polished black surfaces.
In part, the national popularity of their pottery can be attributed to the ease with which the smooth, geometric shapes matched the art deco style of design of the 1930s and 1940s, or as Maria simply put it: "Black goes with everyth
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