Home > Events
Events
Hopi Canteen Collection
Opening Reception Friday August 12th, 2011 from 5-7pm
I am proud to offer such a fine selection to my collectors, - Steve Elmore
See the collection here
- On Friday August 12th, at 5p.m., Steve Elmore Indian Art will proudly open its show of two dozen historic Hopi ceramic canteens, dating from 1895 to the present. Collected by Steve over the last 15 years, most of the canteens were made by the famous Hopi potter, Nampeyo (1860-1942). The show also presents contemporary Hopi canteens by Nampeyo's direct descendent, Rachel Sahmie.
- For the show, Steve writes: "Nampeyo was a master of the canteen form, and she made them throughout her career, beginning with large undecorated ethnographic canteens in the 1870s. While it is difficult to attribute the undecorated ones to her, she developed distinctive markers in her canteens: handles with large grooves in them and turned up spouts in particular. After she began to decorate them, her drawing was often unmistakable. Later in her career she specialized in making small well-molded canteens brilliantly painted for the tourist trade. Most of the canteens in my show date from that 1900 to 1920 period."
- We are fortunate to have the writings of Walter Hough, assistant to Jesse Fewkes during the prehistoric Sikyatki excavations at Hopi who described Nampeyo making a toy canteen during his visit with her in 1896:
I am proud to offer such a fine selection to my collectors, - Steve Elmore
See the collection here
New Painting Show: Sacred Serpents and Fire Trees
July 12th--October 1st, 2013
See the collection here
See the collection here
