Storage Jar

c. 1930

Tonita Martinez Roybal (Pueblo de San Ildefonso, 1892-1945)
Juan Cruz Roybal (Pueblo de San Ildefonso, 1896-1989)
Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico

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

Artists: Tonita Martinez Roybal , Juan Cruz Roybal
Culture: Pueblo de San Ildefonso
Title: Storage Jar
Place: Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico (Object made in)
Date: 1920-1940
Medium: Earthenware (blackware) and slip
Dimensions: 45.7 × 45.7 cm (18 × 18 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Charles and Marjorie Benton
Reference Number: 2015.621

Evan M. Maurer, The Native American Heritage: A Survey of North American Indian Art, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1977), 234, cat. 335 (ill.).
Alfred Dittert, Jr. and Fred Plog, Generations in Clay: Pueblo Pottery of the American Southwest, exh. cat. (Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press in cooperation with American Federation of Arts, 1980), 70, fig. 85 (ill.).
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 74–75, cat. 45 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, The Native American Heritage: A Survey of North American Indian Art, July 16–Oct. 30, 1977, cat. 335.
Flagstaff, AZ, Generations in Clay: Pueblo Pottery of the American Southwest, July 1980–Oct. 1980, fig. 85; Richmond, VA, Museum of Fine Arts, Nov. 18, 1980–Jan. 4, 1981; Madison, WI, Elvehjem Museum of Art (now Chazen Museum of Art), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Feb. 8–Mar. 29, 1981; Evanston, IL, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, May 13–June 28, 1981; Santa Ana, CA, Bowers Museum, –Sept. 30, 1981; Midland, MI, Midland Center for the Arts, Nov. 1–29, 1981; Seattle Art Museum, Jan. 21–Mar. 14, 1982; Phoenix, AZ, Heard Museum, May–June 6, 1982 (organized by American Federation of Arts, New York).

Marjorie and Charles Benton (1931–2015), Evanston, IL, by 1977 [Mauer 1977]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2015.

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