This is a RARE Estate Fresh Native American Indian Pot from a local Estate home.  Its a RARE 3.5" POTTERY POLYCHROME POT w BUG! by " BLUE CORN " of the SAN ILDEFONSO - Crucita Gonzales.  The piece is all Hand painted in beautiful Polychrome colors and Geometric Pueblo Designs.   It comes in Very nice condition as described above.  It is signed on the bottom Blue Corn San Ildefonso Pueblo.   This piece is 3.5" tall x 4.5" inn Diameter.  Its a scarce beauty!!   Blue Corn (c. 1920 - May 3, 1999)  was born “Crucita Calabaza” at San Ildefonso Pueblo. She learned to make pottery from her mother.  She attended school in Pueblo in her early years.  She then went to Santa Fe Indian School, 24 miles from home.  While attending Indian School in Santa Fe, her mother and father died, and she was sent to live with relatives in Southern California.  Here she worked as a maid for a short time in Beverly Hills.   At 20, she married Santiago ‘Sandy’ Calabaza, a silversmith from Santo Domingo pueblo.  Together they settled at San Ildefonso, where she bore and raised ten children.  During World War II, Blue Corn worked as a housecleaner in Los Alamos for the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.  She was renowned for her polychrome Blue Corn pottery and her distinctive blackware.   She made black-on-black, redware, and polychrome pots during her career.  In the late 1950s, Santiago Calabaza quit his day job and began working full-time with her, carving, painting, and designing.  In 1972 Joseph began working with Blue Corn after Santiago passed away.  Blue Corn is especially noted for her finely polished slips and her experiments with clays and colors, creating exceptional polychrome pottery.   In 1981 she won the “Governor’s Award,” New Mexico’s highest artistic honor.  Blue Corn Pottery was so exacting and innovative in her designs that over a decade after her passing, her pottery continues to be influential and highly sought after.  In both a testament to her skill as a potter and a reflection of her creativity, she was posthumously awarded the 2008 “Lifetime Achievement Award” by SWAIA.  Her work can also be found in “Legacy of Generations.” 

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