Women Working Clay, Shaping Vessels

early 20th century

Tonita Peña Pueblo, Native American, 1895-1949

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Title Women Working Clay, Shaping Vessels

Artwork Date early 20th century

Artist Tonita Peña

Life Dates Native American

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Native american

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Pueblo

Medium Casein on paper

Dimensions Sheet: 14 × 22 inches (35.6 × 55.9 cm) Framed (walnut size 3 frame): 24 3/4 × 19 3/4 × 1 3/8 inches (62.9 × 50.2 × 3.5 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Miss Amelia Elizabeth White

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 37.208.1

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Signed Signed, lower right: Quah Ah

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Amelia Elizabeth White (New York, New York, USA, and Miami, Florida, USA)

1937-present, given 1937 to the Detroit Insitute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Hawley, Elizabeth S. "Tonita Peña and the Politis of Pueblo Art," American Art, vol. 35, no. 1 (Spring 2021): pp. 66-74; p. 67, (ill. fig. 5).

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Tonita Peña, Women Working Clay, Shaping Vessels, early 20th century, casein on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Miss Amelia Elizabeth White, 37.208.1.

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