Untitled (Mama Pot)

Ruth Duckworth, Untitled (Mama Pot), 2007, stoneware, 2022 in. (50.855.9 cm) diam., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Colleen and John Kotelly, 2022.64.1

Artwork Details

Title
Untitled (Mama Pot)
Date
2007
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
2022 in. (50.855.9 cm) diam.
Credit Line
Gift of Colleen and John Kotelly
Mediums
Mediums Description
stoneware
Classifications
Subjects
  • Object — other — dish
Object Number
2022.64.1

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 (57 items)

Ernest C. Peixotto, Cambridge, 1892, lithograph pencil, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dr. Fortunato Porotto, 1963.6.2
Cambridge
Date1892
lithograph pencil
Not on view
Ernest C. Peixotto, Valley Forge, 1897, ink, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dr. Fortunato Porotto, 1963.6.33
Valley Forge
Date1897
ink
Not on view
Ernest C. Peixotto, Princeton, 1897, ink and ink wash, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dr. Fortunato Porotto, 1963.6.6
Princeton
Date1897
ink and ink wash
Not on view