Mary Jackson’s coiled baskets show her love for African basketmaking traditions as well as her desire to create contemporary designs. This basket has a wide and shallow body that appears more decorative than functional, but the tall arching handle allows the user to carry more than might appear possible. Jackson invested the piece with a lively quality, weaving the handle so that the patterns appear to leap up, creating a graceful arc before returning to the body.
“The technique is the same; the material is the same as in the traditional baskets; it’s just stretching the tradition to the limit of an art form.” Artist’s statement
- Title
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Low Basket with Handle
- Artist
- Date
- 1999
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 15 1⁄2 × 16 3⁄4 × 16 3⁄4 in. (39.4 × 42.5 × 42.5 cm)
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of Marcia and Alan Docter
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- sweetgrass, pine needles, and palmetto
- Classifications
- Highlights
- Keywords
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- Object – other – basket
- Object Number
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2001.61
- Palette
- Linked Open Data
- Linked Open Data URI
