Lot 356
Nora Yazzie, 'Corn Maiden,' Navajo Pottery Sculpture, 2001
Nora Yazzie, 'Corn Maiden,' Navajo Pottery Sculpture, 2001
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Nanezbah "Nora" Yazzie (Navajo, b. 1954)., . Size: 6.3" D x 23.5" H (16.0 cm D x 59.7 cm H)
About the artist: Born in 1954 into the Dine people of the Four Corners region, Nora Yazzie is a full-blooded Navajo artist raised in Farmington, New Mexico. Her introduction to art came at the Navajo Methodist Mission High School, where she first worked in clay, drama, and creative writing. A first-place finish in her school's clay division set her on the path she has followed ever since. Her artistic foundations run deep. As a child she observed her grandfather, a sandpainter, perform blessing ceremonies, and watched her grandmother, a renowned rug weaver and midwife, bring both new textiles and new lives into the world. These two figures gave shape to her understanding of creativity as something inseparable from the rhythms of daily and spiritual life. That understanding is reinforced by the Navajo language itself, which carries no word for "art." For Yazzie, making is simply a way of living. Color derives from the earth; form derives from the land. Her mother and grandmother taught her to read the shapes of land formations as design, and those geological contours remain the primary source and structural foundation of her work. She is currently pursuing three-dimensional and sculptural forms, with ambitions toward monumental sculpture and bronze.
Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection
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201789
- Condition: A few very small nicks, but, otherwise, intact and excellent. Signed and dated near base on verso.
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