Double Beaded Tall Neck Jar

Karita Coffey

Double Beaded Tall Neck Jar, Pottery by Karita Coffey
  • Coffey pottery
  • Comanche pottery
Savvy Price $1,100.00
Gallery Price $1,500.00
Title
Double Beaded Tall Neck Jar
Artist
Karita Coffey
Medium
Hand-coiled polychrome pottery with glass beads
Size
13" height X 7 1/2" maximum diameter
Signed
"K. Coffey '80" inscribed underneath
Date of creation
1980
Condition
Excellent
Provenance
ST Tennessee art collector
About The Double Beaded Tall Neck Jar

This stately jar offers a sense of whimsy, as it seems to smile at the viewer.

About Karita Coffey

(Born 1947) Comanche artist Karita Coffey attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, one of its first female students, during the 1960s, and later taught at IAIA for many years.

An exhibition titled Belonging:  Contemporary Native Ceramics from the Southern Plains held at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts in Lubbock, TX February 2- March 23, 2024 included Coffey's work along with clay expressions by six (6) other artists to include one of her students, Cannupa Hanska Luger.


 

Cultures

American Indian, Women Artists

Medium

Pottery, Sculpture

Subject

Keywords

Karita Coffey, Coffey pottery, Comanche pottery