Pods
- Date
- 2016
- made in
- North and Central America
- Classification
- Ceramics, sculpture
- Collection
- Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 323
- Dimensions
- .1 center: 36 × 13 × 13 in. (91.4 × 33 × 33 cm)
.2 on left: 30 × 10 × 10 in. (76.2 × 25.4 × 25.4 cm)
.3 on right: 26 × 11 × 11 in. (66 × 27.9 × 27.9 cm) - Credit Line
- Helen Kornblum Fund for Contemporary Native Women Artists; and Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Aronson, by exchange
- Rights
- © Nora Naranjo Morse
- Object Number
- 255:2022a-l
NOTES
Organic forms repeat with subtle variations in size, proportion, and color. The bases resemble the beginnings of many hand-built ceramic vessels. Yet Nora Naranjo Morse kept going, creating seemingly self-contained ceramic forms. She extended the sculptures with elegant, tapering necks and adorned them with jewel-toned rings.
In Pods, the artist responded to Pueblo aesthetic concepts that trace parallels between vessels, buildings, and the natural world. Seedpods and dwellings each “contain, nurture, and protect another entity,” in the artist’s words.
In Pods, the artist responded to Pueblo aesthetic concepts that trace parallels between vessels, buildings, and the natural world. Seedpods and dwellings each “contain, nurture, and protect another entity,” in the artist’s words.
Provenance
- 2022
Nora Naranjo Morse (b.1953), Espanola, NM
2022 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Nora Naranjo Morse [1]
Notes:
[1] Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, November 28, 2022.
Nora Naranjo Morse (b.1953), Espanola, NM
2022 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Nora Naranjo Morse [1]
Notes:
[1] Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, November 28, 2022.
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