Untitled (Mama Pot)

Ruth Duckworth, Untitled (Mama Pot), 2007, stoneware, 20 x 22 in. (50.8 x 55.9 cm) diam., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Colleen and John Kotelly, 2022.64.1

Artwork Details

Title
Untitled (Mama Pot)
Artist
Date
2007
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
20 x 22 in. (50.8 x 55.9 cm) diam.
Credit Line
Gift of Colleen and John Kotelly
Mediums
Mediums Description
stoneware
Classifications
Subjects
  • Object — other — dish
Object Number
2022.64.1
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/2022.64.1

Artwork Description

Ruth Duckworth made this monumental pot as part of her Mama Pots, a series of vessels characterized by hand-shaped slabs and bisecting blades of stoneware. The interior cavities absorb light and cast evocative shadows across its sleek lines. Duckworth often lingered on core dualities in her creative practice: the interaction between visible and invisible, interior and exterior, and a discrete sculpture and infinite space.


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Works by this artist (5 items)

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Ruth Duckworth, Untitled (Bowl Form), ca. 1979, glazed porcelain, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Leatrice and Melvin Eagle, 1992.21
Untitled (Bowl Form)
Artist
Dateca. 1979
glazed porcelain
On view
Ruth Duckworth, Untitled (Mama Pot), 2007, stoneware, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Colleen and John Kotelly, 2022.64.1
Untitled (Mama Pot)
Artist
Date2007
stoneware
Not on view
Ruth Duckworth, (Untitled), n.d., white porcelain, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Samuel and Blanche M. Koffler, 2013.4.7
(Untitled)
Artist
Daten.d.
white porcelain
Not on view
Ruth Duckworth, Untitled (Archival Inventory 761702), 2002, porcelain, slip, and glaze, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the James Renwick Alliance in honor of Kenneth R. Trapp, curator-in-charge of the Renwick Gallery (1995--2003) and gift of an anonymous donor, 2003.55
Untitled (Archival Inventory 761702)
Artist
Date2002
porcelain, slip, and glaze
Not on view