RICK DILLINGHAM (American, 1952 - 1993). Earthenware Pot, 1981, Earthenware signed "Dillingham July 81 - 21" on the base. - Height: 11 inches; diameter 10 inches Height: 11 inches; diameter 10 inches Estimate $500-700
NOTE: Rick Dillingham was a recipient of several National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist fellowships and was renowned for his work in contemporary ceramics and for his scholarship of the pottery traditions of the North American Indian. As a dealer of historic and contemporary native pottery, Dillingham used his knowledge to provide the finest in Pueblo pottery to his clientele and worked to create several magnificent exhibitions of Pueblo pottery, as well as publishing classic texts such as Acoma and Laguna Pottery and Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery.
Rick Dillingham's own work reflected his interest in native pottery traditions, while his most famed forms, the shard vessels, are reflective of his restoration work at the Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe, where he formulated a paradigm of pots as a whole, made of many pieces. His works are broken in countless shards and variously decorated with glazes, gilded, or painted before reassembling.
