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Rose Pecos - Sun Rhodes |
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About Rose Pecos - Sun Rhodes:
Simplified to abstraction, yet utterly realistic in its poses, Rose Pecos Sun Rhodes' work is unlike any other. Judges agree, as her many prize ribbons demonstrate.
As mother, grandmother and teacher, she really knows how kids sit, stand and move; the faces may be simplified, and the clay smoothed to a uniform texture, but each child's attitude and gesture is true to life.
Although a Pueblo herself, her figures are usually Navajo, because she likes the graceful spread of skirts, the colors and jewelry, and the men's cowboy hats - all traditional Navajo wear.
Notice the "blankie" held by the little girl: a beautifully draped and painted Navajo rug. The baby's feet are crossed just like babies do - any minute he's going to kick them out in delight, as babies do. The little cowpoke has looped his rope over his arm, just like Daddy.
This well-reputed artist's style is characterized by a pared-down simplicity and elegance, along with winsome understanding of children. Her style is uniquely her own.
(Taken from
this source.)
Rose Pecos-Sun Rhodes is a Native American Indian that was born on May 23, 1956 into the the small but active Jemez Pueblo. She learned the traditional methods of working with clay art form by observing and assisting her mother, Carol Pecos. Rose has been hand sculpting clay art using ancient traditional methods since 1972.
Rose has developed her own unique style of flawless hand sculpting designs of exquisite storytellers and figurines. Her art form grabs the attention of viewers with the amount of exquisite detail her creative mind produces. Rose harvests all natural materials and paints which she gathers from within the Jemez Pueblo. Her storytellers are the Navajo women with flared skirts. Her trademark is the little boy wearing a cowboy hat. Rose signs her art as: Rose Pecos-Sun Rhodes of Jemez, followed by a sunface symbol.
Rose is also related to: Stephanie Pecos (sister), Irwin Louis Pecos (brother), and Louisa Pecos (granddaughter).
(Taken from
this source.)
Rose Pecos-Sun Rhodes is a Navajo/Jemez Storyteller artist. Her mother, Carol Pecos, taught her how to make pottery at a very young age as did Carol's mother. Carol's grandmother, Lupe Madalena Loretto, made figures in the 1920's and passed the tradition on to her daughters. It was not until about 1974 that Carol started making the Storytellers when she discovered how much fun it was to create them. In the 1980's she started making the Storytellers on a clay base covered with children.
Rose started following the family traditions in the 1970's and has been noted for her Navajo-style Storytellers painted in the traditional Jemez brown, beige and terra-cotta polychrome. Instead of placing her figures on a clay disc she has often extended the long skirt of the female Storyteller to form the base on which the children are placed. Her trade mark is a little boy wearing a cowboy hat which is found on all of her Storytellers.
"My husband, Sun Rhodes, who is an Arapaho, used to put his cowboy hat on our little son, and I wanted to capture that look in clay, but it did not fit in with the Pueblo style, so I started doing a Navajo version, with little boys in cowboy hats and little girls holding traditional Navajo wedding baskets. I make a point of putting in traditional Navajo cradleboards and the correct detailing on the little girl's sashes." That was her inspiration for her now famous trademark.
(Taken from
this source.)
