**Originally Listed At $400**

Jo-Ann Lowney (American, b. 1948). Native American Pottery Still Life. Oil on canvas, 1985. Artist signature and date in lower right corner. A fabulous still life by American artist Jo-Ann Lowney depicting 5 Native American pottery vessels on a tabletop amongst verdant greenery. The interior of each bowl has been adorned with mesmerizing, nested motifs typical of southwestern Native American pottery, while the 2 jars present bulbous bodies and flared rims, all enveloped in rich, earthen hues. Sinuous vines and huge, billowing leaves cascade over the terracotta pieces, their vivaciousness contrasting the fragmented and fissured vessels perhaps to evoke a message on ephemerality and the transience of life, forming a type of American vanitas. Size of painting: 27.5" W x 18.5" H (69.8 cm x 47 cm) Size of frame: 29.5" W x 20.5" H (74.9 cm x 52.1 cm)

Artist's biography: "Jo-Ann Lowney was born in 1948 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. As a child she lived in Europe, spent her high school years in Miami and in her twenties moved to Portland, Maine where she attended the Main College of Art. She then studied five years with the National Academician, Frank Mason, at The Art Student's League of New York. The atmosphere of the League was as formative for Lowney as it was for so many artists, their ghosts haunt it still, Pollock, lumbering around as a busboy in the school's cafeteria, was very aware of visits from Arshile Gorky, who had once taught at the league and still dropped by for coffee. Painters like Rothko, Robert Henri, Georgea O'Keef, Reginold Marsh were all students there. Lowney met her husband, painter Joel Coplin while attending the League classes in New York City. Since 1986, they have made their home and studios at the East Side Art artist's community in Mesa, Arizona. In 1995 Jo-Ann Lowney was awarded the Visual Art Fellowship in Two Dimensional Media by the Arizona Commission on the Arts. In 1996 she was awarded an Artists in Residency Grant by the Arizona Commission on the Arts for the mural project, A History of Superstition Mountain. Lowney's richly painted visionary landscapes and her figurative bronzes evoke a sense of the magic of the natural world and the potency of the human creative unconscious. Her work is featured in many private and corporate collections in this country and abroad, including the McDonald's Corporation, Nordstrums in Scottsdale, and Universal Studios in Hollywood, California." (from artist's website)

Provenance: ex-private Bishop Family Trust collection, the Trust of the late Bill Bishop, a noted antiquarian with shops in Scottsdale, Arizona and Allenspark, Colorado, USA, acquired before 2010

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#174231

A few minor scratches near peripheries, though none are very noticeable. Small indentation and a few tiny marks to left side. Set in frame with suspension wire on verso for display. Some nicks to frame, but overall, painting is in nice condition with great pigments and clear imagery.