Beautiful LUCY LEUPPE MCKELVEY Navajo polychrome POTTERY JAR Vase
Lucy Leuppe McKelvey Navajo polychrome pottery vessel
Signed: "Lucy Leuppe McKelvey Navajo"
Approx H 7.5" x W 7"
Lucy Leuppe McKelvey is a Native American Indain from the Navajo Reservation. She is known as an innovator in the native american art world.Lucy was raised by her grandparents, her grandmother a Navajo weaver, her grandfather a Navajo medicine man, Lucy did not learn to make pottery until she was in college in 1973. After graduating from college, Lucy taught elementary school in for a few years. She then took five years off to raise her three daughters, Cecilia, Celeste, and Celinda. Self-taught, she introduced clay to her daughters. They eventually learned to contruct pottery. She would invite neighboring potters and learn by watching them as well as examining pottery shards she would find outside her grandmotherâ??s house.
Signed: "Lucy Leuppe McKelvey Navajo"
Approx H 7.5" x W 7"
Lucy Leuppe McKelvey is a Native American Indain from the Navajo Reservation. She is known as an innovator in the native american art world.Lucy was raised by her grandparents, her grandmother a Navajo weaver, her grandfather a Navajo medicine man, Lucy did not learn to make pottery until she was in college in 1973. After graduating from college, Lucy taught elementary school in for a few years. She then took five years off to raise her three daughters, Cecilia, Celeste, and Celinda. Self-taught, she introduced clay to her daughters. They eventually learned to contruct pottery. She would invite neighboring potters and learn by watching them as well as examining pottery shards she would find outside her grandmotherâ??s house.
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