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Paqua Naha and the Navasie Family of Potters Paqua Naha (circa 1890 to 1955) was the First Frog Woman and mother of Joy Navasie, the current and Second Frog Woman. The name Paqua means “frog,” and thus a painted frog became Paqua’s signature or hallmark on her pottery. Paqua’s frog has straight lines for toes, while her daughter Joy signs her pots with a web-footed frog. The majority of her works are polychrome-paint-decorated on [...] Click here to continue reading. Walter Launt Palmer (1854 to 1932) The landscapes of Walter Palmer, particularly his snow scenes, were popular prizewinners throughout a long professional career that began before the artist was 20 years old. Born in 1854 in Albany, New York, the son of sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer, Walter grew up among art and artists. His first lessons, in his teens, were with portraitist Charles Elliott and Hudson River School landscapist Frederic Church. Palmer’s work was [...] Click here to continue reading. Pairpoint Manufacturing Co. The seaport city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, once famous as a whaling center and featured as the home port in Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick, also hosted a thriving glass industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Foremost among its glass factories was the Mt. Washington Glass Works, originally founded in 1837 in South Boston (in the vicinity of a small hill known as “Mt. Washington”.) It relocated to [...] Click here to continue reading. Ben Owen, Potter In the hills around Seagrove, North Carolina, the name “Ben Owen” denotes not one, but three potters. Benjamin Wade Owen (1904 to 1983) was the son of Rufus Owen of Moore County, North Carolina. He started working for Jacques and Juliana Busbee at Jugtown Pottery in 1923 and stayed 36 years. Ben was one of the Depression era potters that Jacques Busbee brought to museums in New York City, Washington, [...] Click here to continue reading. Old Hickory Company A well known manufacturer of “rustic furniture”, the Old Hickory Company was begun in 1892 in Martinsville, Indiana. Most of its products were made of peeled or unpeeled tree branches and woven rush type seats and backs. Its products are identified by a three line brand “Old Hickory Co./Martnsville/Indiana”. Some later pieces bear paper labels instead of the brand; the firm closed in 1965. For further information, consult “The Collected Works [...] Click here to continue reading. Darlene Nampeyo (born 1956) Darlene Nampeyo is the great- great- granddaughter of Nampeyo, and daughter of Rachel Nampeyo. Her work has been on exhibit throughout the Southwest and has received accolades at Indian Market and other western shows. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions, Inc., March 2007 Adelle Nampeyo (1959-) Hopi Potter Adelle Nampeyo comes from a long line of great potters. She is the great-granddaughter of Nampeyo, the granddaughter of Fannie Polacca Nampeyo, and the daughter of Elva Tewaguna Nampeyo. She has been published in Dillingham’s Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. Gerald Nailor (Navaho, 1917-1952) Gerald Nailor formally trained at the U. S. Indian School in Santa Fe with Dorothy Dunn and then continued his studies with Kenneth Chapman and the Swedish muralist Olaf Nordemark. In 1937, Nailor shared a studio with Alan Houser and Pop Chalee; it was the first independent art studio and gallery in Santa Fe. In 1938, he and Houser were commissioned to paint Indian Murals for the Department of the [...] Click here to continue reading. John William Orth (1889-1976) Orth died in Santa Anna 1976, and he was one of the last in that area to paint in the style of the Old Masters. Late in his life, he adopted a Gothic style. His forte was portraiture of well-known persons that included Winston Churchill, Charles Laughton, and Albert Einstein. He was originally from Bavaria and emigrated to the United States in 1923. He and his wife Didi led [...] Click here to continue reading. Louis Orr (1879-1961) Louis Orr was a Connecticut-born artist who studied at the Academie Julian in Paris in 1906. He later went to Paris at the request of the French government to make etchings of cathedrals that were under bombardment by the Germans in WWI. He has the distinction of being the first American artist to have his works acquired by the Louvre. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. |
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