Ufer, a German immigrant to the United States, seeks an authentic American art in New Mexico on the heels of World War I and the influenza epidemic
American Southwest
Nampeyo found inspiration from the old to create a pottery style that was entirely new and highly sought after.
Nampeyo (Hopi-Tewa), polychrome jar
Faced with mass production, Maria Martinez continued hand-making pottery as art rather than utilitarian vessels.
Puebloan: Maria Martinez, Black-on-black ceramic vessel
Martinez’s distinctive style developed from studying Southwestern pottery and Modernist abstraction.
Julian Martinez, Buffalo Dancers
Pottery Makers is one of many that the artist Awa Tsireh (Cattail Bird, Spanish name Alfonso Roybal) created about Pueblo cultures
Awa Tsireh’s Pottery Makers
The performance of Indigenous identity through the lens of early 20th-century Modernism.
Robert Henri, Tom Po Qui (Water of ...
The Pueblo Modernism of Velino Shije Herrera.
Velino Shije Herrera (Ma Pe Wi), Design, ...
The Southwest became a hub for artists seeking “quintessentially American” subjects beyond New York and Chicago.
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