Loving art continued...

Teresita Chavez Romero (1894 -1991) of Cochiti Pueblo is considered a revivalist of traditional pottery, active from 1910 to 1960s. Her work is held in the Museum of New Mexico and Laboratory of Anthropology, both in Santa Fe, Museum of Albuquerque and Heard Museum of Phoenix. She is known for her seated clay figurines and functional jars or ollas. She was the Mother of noted watercolorist Santiago Romero and grandmother to accomplished and well-known artists, painter Mateo Romero, and potter Diego Romero.

Photo image of Romero from http://nmstatehood.unm.edu/image/tid/71?page=223

The pot pictured at the left I found in a shop in the North Valley of Albuquerque. Primitive, yet sophisticated with applied lizards. I had no clue about the signature until I went online and immediately found Romero's name, photograph from an old photography collection attributed to T. Harmon Parkhurst and examples of her work in well-established galleries associated with Native American art, along with references to her famous artists son and grandsons.

According to King Galleries in Scottsdale AZ, "the black areas are painted with wild spinach and the red with clay slips.  The red clay she used was distinctive for her pottery and had an orangeish-red coloration."

http://www.kinggalleries.com/product/teresita-romero-bowl-effigy-lizards/