FRITZ SCHOLDER

Portrait of a Massacred Indian

Date: 1972

Dimensions: 72” x 52” (Art) / 74” x 54” (Framed)

Medium: Oil on canvas

Condition: Overall very good

Provenance: 

– Artist’s Collection

– Deane and Susan Penn

– Private Collection

Exhibited:

  • An Exhibition of Paintings - Fritz Scholder. Liberal Arts Center, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, N.M. 1967

  • Indians and Women - Paintings and Drawings by Fritz Scholder. The Jamison Galleries, Santa Fe, N.M. 1971

  • Fritz Scholder–Indians, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1973.

  • Scholder Collects Scholder, de Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, University of Santa Clara, California. 1975.

  • Fritz Scholder: Major Indian Paintings: 1967-77, The Wheelwright Museum, Santa Fe, NM. May 15–July 8, 1977.

  • Fritz Scholder: Icons and Apparitions 1957 - 1997, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ. 1997–1998.

  • Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C., November 1, 2008–August 16, 2009

Illustrated: 

  • Lukavic, John P., et. al. Super Indian: Fritz Scholder 1967-1980. Denver Art Museum, 2015. p. 63. 

  • Sims, Lowery Stokes. Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian. Prestel, 2008. p. 91. 

  • Taylor, Joshua C, et. al. Fritz Scholder. Rizzoli International, 1982. p. 60. 

  • Fritz Scholder: Major Indian Paintings: 1967-77. The Wheelwright Museum, 1977.

  • Fritz Scholder: Icons and Apparitions 1957 - 1997. Scottsdale Center for the Arts, 1997. p. 21.

  • Lucie-Smith, Edward. Fritz Scholder: A Survey of Paintings 1970–1993. Nazraeli Press, 1993.

  • Taylor, Joshua C. Fritz Scholder: The Retrospective 1960-1981. Tucson Museum of Art, 1981.