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<p>This is the Maria Martinez Pottery site. It features San Ildefonso Pottery.</p>
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<td valign="top" width="243"><a href="mailto:gallery@mariapottery.com">Contact
Us</a><br>
<a href="http://www.medicinemangallery.com/data/mpottery/ra.lasso">Recent
Acquisitions</a> - We buy art <br>
<a href="bio/bio.html">Biographhy</a> - The life of Maria and her family<br>
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<td width="207"><a href="sigpg/sig.html">Signatures</a> - Learn how to date
her work<br>
<a href="http://www.medicinemangallery.com/data/mpottery/pots2.lasso">Available
Pieces</a> - View and purchase <br>
<a href="http://www.mariapottery.com">Medicine Man Gallery</a> - Visit our
Gallery <br>
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<p>Not long after her marriage to Julian Martinez, Maria was asked to replicate
some pre-historic pottery styles that had been discovered in an archaeological
excavation of an ancient pueblo site near San Ildefonso. These excavations of
1908 and 1909, led by Dr. Edgar Lee Hewett (who was also the director of the
Museum of New Mexico), produced examples of many pre-historic pottery techniques.
Dr. Hewett asked Maria, who already had a reputation in the pueblo for being
an excellent pottery-maker, if she could make full-scale examples for the museum
of the polychrome ware. It was then that Maria and her husband, Julian (who
painted the designs on the pottery after Maria shaped them), began an artistic
collaboration that would last throughout their lives together.</p>
<p>Maria and Julian refined their pottery techniques and were asked to demonstrate
their craft at several expositions, including the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair,
the 1914 Panama-California Exposition in San Diego, and the 1934 Chicago World's
Fair. Part of their success came from their innovations in the style of black-on-black
ware. </p>
<p>This site also features the work of Maria's family: Santana and Adam, Popovi
Da, and Tony Da.</p>
<p>We also have a collection of work signed "Maria Poveka".</p>
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<p>MEDICINE MAN GALLERY<br>
7000 E. Tanque Verde Road<br>
(SW corner of Sabino Canyon and Tanque Verde)<br>
Tucson (520) 722-7798 or (800) 422-9382</p>
<p>Open Monday through Saturday, 10a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, 1-4 p.m. (no Sunday
hours May September) and by appointment. </p>
<p>707 Canyon Rd<br>
Santa Fe, NM 87501<br>
(505) 820-7451<br>
10 - 5 p.m. 7 days a week</p>
<p> J. Mark Sublette, Medicine Man Gallery specializes in the lifework of famed
artist Maynard Dixon, and other fine early American paintings, including those
by the Taos Society of Artists. The 10,000 sq. ft. gallery houses the finest
in antique American Indian art, with one of the largest selections of historic
Navajo textiles, Pueblo pottery, baskets, beadwork, and jewelry in the country.
Spanish Colonial and turn of the century Arts and Crafts furnishings, contemporary
fine art and a new courtyard sculpture garden are also featured. </p>
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