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Rosalie Simbola Aguilar (c. 1898–1947) was a Pueblo-American potter from the Picurís tribe. She is known for her black-on-black pottery and for her creation circa 1931 of a technique in which contrasting carved heights were accentuated with glossy or dull coating. Simbola often collaborated with her husband, José Angela Aguilar, who would carve and paint her creations. By the 1930s her pottery was exhibited nationally along with contemporaries like Rose Gonzales, Maria Martinez, Juanita Pena and Tonita Roybal. Simbola's works are in the permanent collection of institutions including the Denver Museum of Natural History.

Simbola married José Angela Aguilar in 1922 and moved with him to his hometown of San Ildefonso Pueblo. There, she established herself as a prominent potter. A number of the couple's eleven children became potters and painters themselves, including José Vicente Aguilar, Alfred Aguilar, Florence Naranjo and Kathy Trujillo.

References

1. ^ Wormington, H. M. (Hannah Marie) (1951). The story of Pueblo pottery. Internet Archive. Denver : Denver Museum of Natural History.
2. Sommer, Robin Langley (1994). Native American art. Internet Archive. New York : Smithmark. ISBN 978-0-8317-6338-1.
3. Bahti, Tom (1968). Southwestern Indian tribes. Internet Archive. Flagstaff, Ariz. : KC Publications. ISBN 978-0-916122-01-0.
4. "Nation's Ceramic Artists Hold Annual Show". The Art Digest. 7 (17): 6. 1 June 1933.
5. Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse (1973). Indians of the Rio Grande Valley. Internet Archive. New York, Cooper Square Publishers. ISBN 978-0-8154-0462-0.
6. Babcock, Barbara A. (1986). The Pueblo storyteller : development of a figurative ceramic tradition. Internet Archive. Tucson : University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-0870-9.
7. King, Jeanne Snodgrass (1968). American Indian painters; a biographical directory. Smithsonian Libraries. New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.

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