Lines on the Horizon 100 ART on View This May, the de Young Museum in San Francisco celebrated an extraordinary gift of Native American art from the Thomas Weisel Family Collection with the opening of a special exhibition. Lines on the Horizon, on view until January 4, 2015, features seventy-two objects selected from this transformative donation of more than 200 works. The exhibition, designed to showcase the collection’s signal strength in the arts of the Southwest, spans nearly a thousand years of artistic production, from eleventh-century Mimbres ceramics to nineteenth-cen- By Matthew H. Robb and Jill D’Alessandro tury works by recognized artists such as the Hopi-Tewa potter Nampeyo and masterworks of Navajo weaving. Monumental and handheld arts of the Pacific Northwest as well as the first Plains ledger drawings to enter the museum’s holdings are also represented. In the study of ancient Southwestern ceramics, the distinctive pottery associated with sites in the Mimbres Valley of what is now southwestern New Mexico has attracted enthusiastic attention since its discovery in the early twentieth century. The residents of the Mimbres Valley organized themselves around agriculture and its seasonal rituals. They built small villages, first of pithouses and later with aboveground multiroom residential structures that each may have housed a few thousand people. Mimbres painters developed their unique style without the impetus of a highly stratified political hier-
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