No image

Massacre at Wounded Knee II

Fritz ScholderWW-1970-166262

1970·Oil on canvas·Overall: 60 1/8 × 46 1/4 in. (152.7 × 117.5 cm)

<p>Fritz Scholder, <em>Massacre at Wounded Knee II</em>, 1970. Oil on canvas, overall: 60 1/8 × 46 1/4 in. (152.7 × 117.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee and the Josephine N. Hopper Bequest, by exchange 2025.22</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1970
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Overall: 60 1/8 × 46 1/4 in. (152.7 × 117.5 cm)
Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art
Artist: Fritz Scholder

Artist

Fritz Scholder

Printmaking

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.

Breckenridge, MN, USA

Full artist profile →