The decades of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s were a time of growth
and change in producing, marketing, and collecting Native American
artwork and craftwork. During this time William R. Wright amassed a
collection notable for its broad representation of
twentieth-century Native American products. Focusing on the
Southwest, he included contemporary Pueblo ceramics, Navajo and
Hopi textiles, Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni jewelry, and baskets from
some forty different Native American groups. The objects Wright
gathered, which are now part of the collections of the Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, reflect developments in the
intersecting worlds of makers, markets, and collectors, including
the challenges faced by makers to successfully balance tradition
and innovation in their work and their lives.
This volume examines selected objects from the Wright
collection to explore the market-influenced environment of modern
Native American makers and their work, from what some consider the
low end of tourist art multiples to the high end of unique, signed
fine art objects.
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