Artist

Alice Cling

born Cow Springs, Navajo Nation, AZ 1946
Media - cling_alice.jpg - 89969
Originally photographed by Chuck Rosenak. Image is courtesy of the Chuck and Jan Rosenak research material, 1990-1999, in the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Also known as
  • Alice Williams
Born
Cow Springs, Navajo Nation, Arizona, United States
Biography

Alice Cling grew up in her mother's hogan (a Navajo dwelling), where she made pottery and helped on the family homestead (Chuck and Jan Rosenak, Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia, 1990). She builds her pots by hand, winding strips of clay into coils to form the body. Cling was the first Navajo potter to polish her pots using a smooth river stone instead of the traditional corncob, and creates the distinctive red color with a special clay slip made by the Walapai tribe (Chuck and Jan Rosenak, The People Speak: Navajo Folk Art, 1994).

Works by this artist (12 items)

F. Leslie Thompson, Indian Hill, n.d., aquatint, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chicago Society of Etchers, 1935.13.335
Indian Hill
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aquatint
Not on view
F. Leslie Thompson, Indian Hill, n.d., color aquatint, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chicago Society of Etchers, 1935.13.341
Indian Hill
Daten.d.
color aquatint
Not on view
F. Leslie Thompson, Indian Hill, n.d., aquatint, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chicago Society of Etchers, 1935.13.340
Indian Hill
Daten.d.
aquatint
Not on view
F. Leslie Thompson, Indian Hill, n.d., aquatint, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chicago Society of Etchers, 1935.13.336
Indian Hill
Daten.d.
aquatint
Not on view