Vase
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
When I'm doing my pottery I think of Mom [Marie Z. Chino] first, and that she could help me. I want to do like she does. She didn't need outlining, she just painted, and sometimes I do that now I know the design and I just do it.
-Grace Chino, quoted in Rick Dillingham, Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery (1994)
The Chino family, led by the matriarch Marie Z. Chino, was innovative in adapting the designs found on prehistoric pottery shards to modern pottery forms. Grace Chino here used a dazzling, closely lined black-and-white design on a new vessel form reminiscent of ancient Pueblo pots. The result is a form of abstraction that embraces tradition as essential to innovation.
Caption
Grace Chino (Haak’u (Acoma Pueblo), 1929–1995). Vase, 1989. Clay, slip, 15 x 36 3/8 in. (38.1 x 92.4cm) diameter at top: 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Augustus Graham School of Design Fund, 1990.68. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Maker
Title
Vase
Date
1989
Geography
Place made: Acoma, New Mexico, United States
Medium
Clay, slip
Classification
Dimensions
15 x 36 3/8 in. (38.1 x 92.4cm) diameter at top: 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm)
Credit Line
Augustus Graham School of Design Fund
Accession Number
1990.68
Frequent Art Questions
What was some of the work Grace Chino did?
Grace Chino was a highly respected potter who made traditional Acoma pottery, using native clay, temper, slips, and paints.
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