#fritz scholder

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Fritz Scholder (Native American, 1937-2005), Dark Indian, c.1970. Oil on canvas, 30 x 23 in.

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Fritz Scholder

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“The First One” (1977), Fritz Scholder

“For me, a painting should be spontaneous. It should have the elements of the material you’re working with, which is paint. Paint drips, it splashes.” 

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Fritz Scholder

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Fritz Scholder, ‘Possession On The Beach’, 1989.

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Fritz Scholder, Portrait, 1896, 1976, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)

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Fritz Scholder - Sitting Indian (1975)

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Fritz Scholder (Native American, 1937-2005), Indian with Umbrella, c.1970. Acrylic on canvas, 80 x 68 in.

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1217

first posted in facebook october 5, 2023

fritz scholder -- "indian at gallup bus depot" (1969)

"gather round you people and a story i will tell about a brave young indian you should remember well from the tribe of pima indians, a proud and a peaceful band they farmed the phoenix valley in arizona land down their ditches for a thousand years the sparkling water rushed 'til the white man stole their water rights and the running water hushed now ira's folks were hungry and their farms when crops of weeds but when war came he volunteers and forgot the white man's greed" … bob dylan

"when i first came to santa fe, i vowed to myself that i would not paint indians. then i saw the numerous over romanticized paintings of the 'noble savage' looking in the sunset and decided that someone should paint the indian from a different context" … fritz scholder

"they started up iwo jima hill, 250 men but only 27 lived to walk back down that hill again and when the fight was over and the old glory raised one of the men who held it high was the indian ira hayes" … bob dylan

"the 'new indians' know they must become educated, in order both to function in white society and to comprehend fully the exciting rich Indian culture of the past … the indians’ lot since the coming of europeans to america has been very distressing" … fritz scholder

"now ira returned a hero, celebrated throughout the land he was wined and speeched and honored, everybody shook his hand but he was just a pima indian, no money crops, no chance and at home nobody cared what ira had done, and the wind did the indian's dance" … bob dylan

"and this sounds terribly trivial, and it probably is but i'm probably the first person in all of art history to do a painting of an indian with a cat. now there have been many paintings of indians with dogs. but no one, no non-indian realized that indians love cats. and that caused a stir, believe it or not. i was the first one to do an indian wrapped in the american flag. that caused a stir. i was the first one to do indians holding an umbrella … and i think that art is the vehicle for putting forth and fighting clichés, which we all fall into" … fritz scholder

"and ira started drinking hard, jail was often his home they let him raise the flag there and lower it like you'd throw a dog a bone he died drunk early one morning, alone in the land he had fought to save two inches of water in a lonely ditch was the grave for ira hayes …

yes, call him, drunken ira hayes, but his land is still as dry and his ghost is lying thirsty in the ditch where ira died call him, drunken ira hayes, he won't answer anymore not the whiskey-drinking indian or the marine who went to war call him, drunken ira hayes, he won't answer anymore not the whiskey-drinking indian or the marine who went to war" … bob dylan

"happy indigenous peoples' day weekend" … al janik

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“American Portrait with One Eye” (1975), Fritz Scholder

Fritz Scholder's revolutionary paintings broke away from stereotypical images and forever changed the concept of 'Indian artist.'

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Fritz Scholder, 'Indian with Butterfly'

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#PBS "American Indian Artists" was a six-part series aired on PBS in 1976. Filmed on location in the Hopi mesas of New Mexico, the program featured the work, philosophy, and lifestyle of seven Native American artists. Pictured here are Helen Hardin, a Santa Clara painter, exhibiting one of her paintings, "Deer with Indian Artists," outside her studio, and Fritz Scholder standing before "Television Indian," a painting he created during the program's filming.

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Fritz Scholder - Carnival #13