Black Seed Jar

1974

Joseph Lonewolf (Santa Clara, 1932–2014)

Status: On View, Gallery 136
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Joseph Lonewolf
Culture: Santa Clara Pueblo
Title: Black Seed Jar
Places: New Mexico (Object made in), Santa Clara Pueblo (Object made in), United States (Object made in)
Date: 1974
Medium: Ceramic
Inscriptions: Signed and inscribed bottom, incised: "JOSEPH [abstract wolf head motif] LONEWOLF / 424 / 1974".
Dimensions: 5.5 × 11 × 11.2 cm (2 3/16 × 4 3/8 × 4 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of David and Cindy Van Zelst
Reference Number: 2008.181

Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago with Yale University Press, 2016), 76, cat. 49 (ill.).

Chicago, Douglas Kenyon Gallery, Contemporary Masters of Indian Art, Dec. 6, 1974–Jan. 13, 1975, no. cat.

Douglas Kenyon Gallery [Douglas Kenyon Incorporated (DKI)], Chicago, by 1974 [photograph included in promotion for Contemporary Masters of American Indian Art; this and the following according to documentation provided by the donor in curatorial object file]; sold to David and Cindy Van Zelst, Glenview, IL, 1974; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2008.

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