1966

All pottery unless otherwise noted is from my personal collection of pots from the past that I managed to keep an example or two from different periods of time for the last 43 years or so.  
Loaned by Mrs R. A. Benjamin

    1965  Bottle made from clay from Labahada Hill between Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

    1965    I rubbed my pottery with asphaltum and then lit them on fire when I was in college.
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

    1966     This lidded pot was in a student show at WNMU in 1966
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

    1983    Angel #1.............I told people that I was going to make a living making angels after I quit my job at the museum.   (and I have and some paintins and off jobs over the years)
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

    1984    Elephant teapot 
Loaned by Harry Benjamin
 

    "Owl"  Loaned by Miriam Cwieka

    1984    Wood fired..........in my yard where I had a wood burning kiln that I called King Tut.
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

    1984    Pot Head                     Wood fired
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

 

1984   Pot Head                    Wood fired 
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

1986   Wagalag Sister's stick using  terra sigallata as a finish
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

I did a series of clay objects around the mythology of the Aborigine peoples of Australia.

1985     "Picasso"
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

I was invited to have a show at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.
For the show I made a series of sculptures of figures doing various things from Picasso saying "it was this high" to masked figures.

    

1985    "The Juggler"
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

1987    "Portrait of Eric Renner"
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

1987   Deer with bird whistle
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

1977     Raku  (made in a workshop with Paul Soldner)
(not in exhibit)

1985   Apple pot.................wood fired
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

"Mask"   Loaned by Trish Geels
made for first Neo-Mimbreno show

 

"Moon mask"   Loaned by Trish Geels

1985   Ibis from King Tut's tomb
From King Tut series of pottery pieces which included everything from a King Tut ashtray to King Tut popsicles.
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

"Deer and Cow Dung Necklace"  Loaned by Beth Menczer
 


"Neo-Mimbreno Mask"  clay/fiber/feathers
Loaned by Beth Menczer

This was made for one of the first Neo Mimbreno shows at the Silver City Museum sometime in the 80's I think.
I was interested in African Art at that time because of an African exhibit that i installed at the museum of items collected by Dr. Bob Miller up at the University when he was in Nigeria for extended periods of time doing research.
Beth stole some feathers from her favorite chicken to do
a little restoration.
 

1989   Scrafitto pot
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

1999    Pottery for baby boomers from the adobe series
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

"Landscape punch Bowl"   Loaned by Trish Geels
I have no idea how many landscape pots in various forms I have made in the last 20 years but it has been many
 

"Cherry Pickin Puki"  Loaned by Beth Menczer

"Chicken Puki"  Loaned by Beth Menczer

1989 Tripod vase  
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

1988   Wood fired
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

1986
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

1988 
The Greeks made shallow painted bows much in appearance to Mimbres pottery between 2,000 and 4,000 BC.   This is a reproduction of one and it is done with Terre Sigallata which I experimented with after taking a workshop at WMNU
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

1989   made from local clay and ground up hematite and wood fired
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

1989
made from local clay and ground up hematite and wood fired
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

1987
Mimbres minature like puki................the Mimbreno made hundreds of really small bowls of which their use is not known
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

1990
Loaned by Harry Benjamin
 

1990
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

1989
Mimbres minature like puki...................the Mimbreno made hundreds of really small bowls of which their use is not known
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

1988  
local clay body with local Kaolin slip and pit fired
After I quit the Museum and opened my shop I started teaching Elder Hostel workshops at Bear Mountain Lodge for Myra McCormick  (Beth Menczer helped with many of the classes.   I lectured on the local Pre-Columbian cultures in New Mexico and Arizona and Mexico for about 5 years.      Loaned by Harry Benjamin

1988   local clay body with local Kaolin slip and pit fired
Loaned by Harry Benjamin
 

2007     the Corn Angel
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

1989   small puki bowl
Loaned by Harry Benjamin

"Buddha"  mixed media (clay/wood)

This belonged to my cousin Nancy Woodbury for the last
30 years.  It was first exhibited in Hills Gallery in Santa Fe in 1972.
Loaned by J. Wayne Woodbury