Dolores Curran
Santa Clara
Mini Flower
Seed Vase
3" H
x 2" D
There's just nothing quite
like a Dolores Curran pot! She is an expert who is well known
for her miniatures, and this tiny water vessel exhibits everything
she has become so well known for. It has a nice shiny black finish
along the top and bottom, while the interior designs are matte
with subtle flecks of mica. Floral and feather designs appear
throughout.
Dolores Curran is one of the
finest potters in any Pueblo today. This fact was validated in
1993 when Dolores won "Best of Division" at the Santa
Fe Indian Market. This means her pot was judged the finest of
all the hundreds of pots entered that year.
She is the daughter of the
late potter Ursulita Naranjo and the sister of famed minaturist
Geri Naranjo. She was married to the fine San Juan potter Alvin
Curran who passed away in 1999.
Dolores most typically works
in the "cream on red" style. A little known fact is
that she must paint each pot at least three times before the
designs achieve the required degree of opacity.
More information on Dolores
Curran may be found in the Gregory Schaaf Book "Pueblo Indian
Pottery - 750 Artist Biographies" on pages 18-19.
