19th Century Olla ZIA PUEBLO 'Polychrome Classic' Ca 1880-90, 11 x 10"

Description

ORIGINAL AND VINTAGE
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ZIA PUEBLO
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POLYCHROME CLASSIC OLLA, 'BROKEN AND GLUED BACK TOGETHER',  11" x 10".............
This is an 11" x 10" Original and Vintage polychrome classic olla from the Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico, ca 1880-1890. The design is classic Zia with large designs inside of Zia bands and decorations. The label was applied in the 1920s before the jar was broken and put back together. From the estate of William Penhallow Henderson, 1877-1943. Double boxed shipping.
The Biography Follows:
Born in Medford, Massachusetts, William Penhallow Henderson became a painter of Indian motifs, especially New Mexico pueblo dance figures.  His work conveyed a highly personal sense of the viewer being with the subjects of his painting, and it was said that he saw beauty everywhere in his surroundings.
He spent much of an unstable childhood with a family that followed the father to a Texas cattle ranch, back to Medford, to a small Kansas town where his father was a banker, and then East again in 1891.
He studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts with Edmund Tarbell and won a Paige Traveling Scholarship that allowed him to travel and study in Europe for three years beginning 1901.  There he was greatly influenced by the styles of Cezanne, Van Gogh, Renoir and Whistler.
He then taught in Chicago at the Academy of Fine Arts, painted murals in the Chicago public schools, and designed scenery and costumes for the Chicago Fine Arts Theatre. He produced murals for Frank Lloyd Wright's Midway Gardens, which Wright did not like and had them painted over with his own. Henderson was never paid.
He married poet Alice Corbin, and the two collaborated on children's books with him doing the illustrations.  In 1916, having spent several summers in the Southwest, the couple moved to Santa Fe where he became an active mural painter, architectural and furniture designer, using Indian and Hispanic images.  His studio was on the Camino de Monte Sol, and in 1923, he was one of the founders of the New Mexico Painters Society.
He also painted in Arizona.  His 1904 painting,
Hopi Kachina
Dance
, is the earliest extant Arizona work, and from 1916, he painted many Indian ceremonies in Arizona as well as New Mexico.
Walpi Snake Dance
is dated 1920, and in style is described as being "emotive rather than anthropological, drawing on the influence of French Post-Impressionist painter, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) and the Nabi painters of the 1890s." (138)
As owner of the Pueblo-Spanish Building Company in Santa Fe, he designed Sena Plaza, the Santa Fe Railway train office opposite La Fonda on the Plaza, and the Wheelright Museum, then called the Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, which won an award in 1938 from the Architectural League of New York.  In the entrance he sculpted a mural of a corn plant.
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