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Striped Turtle Storyteller with Watermelon
Randall Chitto
- About The Striped Turtle Storyteller with Watermelon
This scale of Mr. Chitto's turtle storytellers approximates $1,200 when in excellent condition.
Savvy Price $200.00
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Item Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Product Details
| Description | This scale of Mr. Chitto's turtle storytellers approximates $1,200 when in excellent condition. |
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| About the Artist | (Born 1962, Choctaw) While in high school, Chitto was chosen to attend specialized art classes at the Chicago Art Institute and the Illinois Institute of Technology. Later he enrolled in The Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM where he focused on painting until discovering clay. Graduating with degree in both two and three dimensional work, his clay work is now in the permanent collections of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC.; the Denver Art Museum and the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. Chitto is the winner of a Southwestern Association for Indian Arts Fellowship as well as a Dubin Fellow at the School of American Research. Keeper of stories and history, the turtle serves as Chitto's primary subject. Randy Chitto was profiled in the Summer 2025 issue of First American Art magazine, along with other members of his family. |
| Culture | American Indian |
| Style | Whimsical |
| Medium | Hand formed clay with slip decoration, raffia, hide pouch and ear cones |
| Size | 12" height (including raffia), 5" width X 8" depth |
| Signed | "Chitto" inscribed underneath |
| Date of creation | Circa 1995 |
| Condition | Fair, repaired leg of small turtle, dark scrape (see photos) and mild soiling |
| Provenance | BM |
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