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Water Jar
Water Jar

Water Jar

Artist Joanna Underwood Blackburn Chickasaw Nation, born 1970
Date2017
MediumBronze, paint/patina
Dimensionsheight, width, and depth: 46 × 37 × 35 in. (116.8 × 94 × 88.9 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Art Trust Fund Endowment
Object number2024.17.1
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceCreated by the artist, 2017; sold to the NCMA, 2024.Published ReferencesTo Take Shape and Meaning: Form and Design in Contemporary American Indian Art, exhibition catalogue (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2024), illustrated pp. 46-47.Exhibition HistoryPembroke, NC, Museum of the Southeast American Indian, University of North Carolina at Pembroke,

"Visual Voices: Contemporary Chickasaw Art," Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, OK, June 8–September 9, 2018; Jackson, MS, Mississippi Museum of Art, March 2–June 2, 2019; Santa Fe, NM, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native American Arts, August 15, 2019–January 19, 2020; San Antonio, TX, Briscoe Western Art Museum, September 17, 2020–January 18, 2021.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "To Take Shape and Meaning: Form and Design in Contemporary American Indian Art," March 2–July 28, 2024.
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