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Artists›Fritz Scholder

Fritz Scholder

American, 1937

Breckenridge, MN, USA

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Fritz Scholder was an American painter known for figurative work that engaged with Native American imagery and identity during the postwar period. Working primarily in oil and acrylic, he developed a distinctive approach that combined expressionist brushwork with representational subject matter. His paintings often depicted Native American subjects with psychological complexity and formal rigor, resisting both ethnographic cliché and abstract reduction. Scholder's work occupied a contested but significant position in mid-twentieth-century American painting.

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Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago Whitney Museum of American Art

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Artworks (15)

Horse and Rider

1976 · Color lithograph on buff wove paper

76.5 × 57.5 cm (30 1/8 × 22 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

American Landscape (Second State)

1975 · Lithograph in black on buff wove paper

Sheet: 57.5 × 76.5 cm (22 11/16 × 30 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Bicentennial Indian from Kent Bicentennial Portfolio: Spirit of Independence

1975 · Lithograph from a portfolio of six lithographs, four screenprints (one with collage additions), and two lithograph and screenprints

composition and sheet: 22 5/16 × 29 3/4" (56.6 × 75.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Kent Bicentennial Portfolio: Spirit of Independence

1974 · Portfolio of six lithographs, four screenprints (one with collage additions), and two lithograph and screenprints

composition and sheet (see child records): dimensions vary

Museum of Modern Art

Santa Fe Indian #2

1973 · Color lithograph on pale pinkish cream wove paper

Image: 71 × 51 cm (28 × 20 1/8 in.); Sheet: 75.7 × 56.5 cm (29 13/16 × 22 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Buffalo Dancer from the portfolio Indians Forever

1971 · One from a portfolio of eight lithographs

sheet: 30 × 22" (76.2 × 55.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Indian at the Bar from the portfolio Indians Forever

1971 · One from a portfolio of eight lithographs

sheet: 30 × 22" (76.2 × 55.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Indians with Umbrellas from the portfolio Indians Forever

1971 · One from a portfolio of eight lithographs

sheet: 22 × 30" (55.9 × 76.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Whitney Museum of American Art

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Work	Auction House	Date	Estimate	Hammer Price
Untitled	Freeman's\|Hindman	Sep 2025	$8,000 – $12,000	Unsold
Untitled	Phillips	Jun 2025	$1,000 – $2,000	Unsold

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