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Fritz William Scholder V

mythos of the American Indian. A teacher at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe
in the late 1960s, Scholder instructed prominent Native American students.

Early life and education

Fritz Scholder was born October 6, 1937, in

Yanktonai Dakota artist.[8] In the summer of 1955, Scholder attended the Mid-West Art and Music Camp at the University of Kansas.[9] He studied with Robert B. Green at Lawrence, Kansas.[10]

In 1956, Scholder graduated from

Wisconsin State University in Superior, where he studied with Arthur Kruk, James Grittner, and Michael Gorski.[citation needed
]

Early career

In 1957, Scholder moved with his family to

Sacramento State University, where he studied with Tarmo Pasto and Raymond Witt, Scholder was invited to participate in the Rockefeller Indian Art Project at the University of Arizona
in 1961.

Native Americans series

NMAI

He met Cherokee Nation fashion designer Lloyd Kiva New and studied with Hopi jeweler Charles Loloma. After receiving a John Hay Whitney Fellowship, Scholder moved to Tucson and became a graduate assistant in the University of Arizona fine arts department where he studied with Andrew Rush and Charles Littler. There, he met artists Max Cole, John Heric and Bruce McGrew. After graduating with a MFA degree in 1964,[8] Scholder accepted the position of instructor in advanced painting and contemporary art history at the newly formed Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Scholder has always worked in series of paintings. In 1967, his new series on the Native American, depicting the "real Indian," became an immediate controversy. Scholder painted Indians with

American flags, beer cans, and cats. His target was the loaded national cliché and guilt of the dominant culture. His portraits have been described as drawing out "the psychic cost of the gap between romantic and backward-looking popular stereotypes of Indians and the actualities of their daily lives" and as often employing "a sardonic humour in their revelations of the absurdities of Native people's lives in the twentieth-century world".[13]
Scholder did not grow up as an Indian and his unique perspective could not be denied. Scholder resigned from IAIA in 1969 and traveled to Europe and North Africa. He returned to Santa Fe and acquired a small adobe house and studio on Canyon Road.

In 1970 he was invited by the

Albuquerque, to do their first major project in their new premises. The collaboration resulted in the suite of seven lithographs Indians Forever, where the artist articulates more consciously the image of the modern Indian and which introduced him to the medium of lithography. The success of the series with critics and the public alike also helped to establish Tamarind Institute as a leading centre for printmaking in the United States.[14]
Scholder/Indians was published by Northland Press, the first book on Scholder's work. In the same year, Scholder had his first one-man show at the Lee Nordness Galleries.

Indian Image (1972) at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2023

He had become a major influence for a generation of Native American artists. He was invited to lecture at numerous art conferences and universities including Princeton and Dartmouth. In 1972 an exhibition of the Dartmouth Portraits opened at Cordier and Ekstrom in New York to favorable reviews. In the same year, Adelyn D. Breeskin of the Smithsonian American Art Museum visited Scholder and suggested a two-person show of the work of Scholder and one of his former students. Scholder chose T. C. Cannon. The show opened in Washington, D.C.[15] to good reviews and traveled to Romania, Yugoslavia, Berlin, and London. Scholder was invited to have a one-man show at the Basil V International Art Fair in Switzerland in 1974.[16] After Basel, Scholder traveled to Egypt and painted the sphinx and pyramids.

In 1975, Scholder did his first

Idyllwild, California
and again at the Oklahoma Arts Institute.

Recognition in the 1980s

In 1981, the

Norsk Hostfest
followed.

Later exhibitions

NMAI

In 1994,

MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire. The following year, two major shows opened, The Private Work of Fritz Scholder at the Phoenix Art Museum and a year-long exhibition, Fritz Scholder/Icons and Apparitions, at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts in Arizona. Scholder began the Millenium series and worked in London, Paris and Budapest
.

In 1999 Scholder completed Future Clone, an eight-foot-tall bronze sculpture, described by ArtDaily as "androgynous angel figure" which exhibits "the same agitated, textural touch" that Scholder brought to his paintings.[20] He produced his first digital book, Thoughts at Night, in 2000. That year Scholder returned to Santa Fe to open an exhibition Alone/Not Alone at Chiaroscuro Gallery. In October, 2001 a major exhibition of paintings and sculpture regarding death and skulls titled, Last Portraits, at the Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, opened in Duluth. In March 2002, Chiaroscuro Galleries in Scottsdale opened a major show titled Orchids and Other Flowers, Scholder's reaction to 9/11. Scholder is the 2002 Arizona Governor's Award recipient.

Posthumous recognition

On August 25, 2009, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver announced that Scholder was one of 13 California Hall of Fame inductees. His work was then featured at The California Museum's exhibition of the work and contributions of that year's Hall of Fame laureates. The induction ceremony was on December 1, 2009, at the museum in Sacramento.

Scholder's Future Clone sculpture was included in a scene in

Baselitz painting, all devoured face and wings, an evil spectre".[21]
On November 1, 2008, the
Overland Park
, Kansas.

Scholder's work was part of Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now (2019–20), a traveling exhibition organized by

National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center in New York.[22]

In June 2022, Scholder's triptych "Possession on the Beach," previously shown during "Indian/Not Indian" exhibition (2008–09) at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, is exhibited in the American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[23][24]

References

  1. ^ Oliver, Myrna (February 15, 2005). "Fritz Scholder, 67; His Creations Redefined American Indian Art". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
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  5. ^ "Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian. Introduction." Archived 2009-07-17 at the Wayback Machine National Museum of the American Indian. (retrieved 27 Dec 2009)
  6. ^ "Treasures of the IACB: Fritz Scholder, Indian With Cat (1973)" U.S. Department of the Interior. (retrieved 25 Feb 2021)
  7. ^ Gardner, Andrew (2017-12-18). "The Enduring Legacy of One of the Most Influential Native American Artists". Artsy. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
  8. ^ a b c d "Fritz Scholder, Indian and Storefront". Nasher Museum of Art. Duke University. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  9. ^ "Fritz Scholder Chronology" (PDF).
  10. ^ "Oral History Interview with Fritz Scholder".
  11. ^ Felsenthal, Julia (30 September 2015). "Artsplainer: Fritz Scholder's Indian Paintings at the Denver Art Museum". Vogue. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
  12. ^ Hoedel, Cindy (2016-07-09). "'Super Indian' at the Nerman Museum seduces with bold colors, imagery". Kansas City Star. Retrieved 2020-08-17.
  13. ^ Berlo, Janet C.; Phillips, Ruth B. (1998). Native North American Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 225.
  14. ^ Suzanne Fricke, 'Fritz Scholder's Indians Forever and Tamarind Institute', in Print Quarterly, XXXVI, no.3 (September 2019), pp. 275–286
  15. ^ National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution (1972). Two American painters: Fritz Scholder and T. C. Cannon. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  16. ISBN 1558622217
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  17. ^ Steven Leuthold, "13: Native American Art and Artists in Visual Arts Documentaries from 1973 to 1991," Archived 2020-06-15 at the Wayback Machine[ISBN missing] in On the Margins of Art Worlds, ed. Larry Gross. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995, 268.
  18. ^ Cunningham, Elizabeth (1983). Masterpieces of the American West : Selections from the Anschutz Collection. Denver, CO: Anschutz Collection.
  19. ^ "Past Recipients". New Mexico Museum of Art. Archived from the original on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  20. ^ "A Surprising Portrait of Fritz Scholder, the Nation's Most Celebrated Native American Artist Opens in New York" ArtDaily. (retrieved 16 Feb 2011)
  21. ^ "Film Review: Black Swan (2010)" Dogandwolf.com. (retrieved 16 Feb 2011)
  22. ^ "Stretching the Canvas: Eight Decades of Native Painting". National Museum of the American Indian. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  23. ^ Cotter, Holland (3 July 2022). "At the Met, Protest and Poetry About Water". The New York Times.
  24. ^ "Indigenous A&E: Landback and water art, historical injustices on film".

Further reading

  • Monthan, Guy and Doris (1975). Art and Indian Individualists: The art of seventeen contemporary Southwestern artists and craftsmen. Flagstaff, Arizona: Northland Press.
    LCCN 74-31544

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