Artist
Fritz Scholder
American and Luiseño, 1937–2005
Fritz Scholder was an American and Luiseño Abstract Expressionism artist. 3 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Fritz Scholder was born in Breckenridge.
Fritz William Scholder V (October 6, 1937 – February 10, 2005) was a Native American artist, who produced paintings, monotypes, lithographs, and sculptures. Scholder was an enrolled member of the La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians, a federally recognized tribe of Luiseños, a California Mission tribe. Scholder's most influential works were post-modern in sensibility and somewhat Pop Art in execution as he sought to deconstruct the 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.
Works by Fritz Scholder
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