Born in Breckenridge, Minnesota, Fritz Scholder became a prominent Indian portrait, figure, and genre painter in Arizona. His father was part Indian, and Fritz Scholder chose to focus his art work on... Read full biography
Born in Breckenridge, Minnesota, Fritz Scholder became a prominent Indian portrait, figure, and genre painter in Arizona. His father was part Indian, and Fritz Scholder chose to focus his art work on this part of his lineage and to express both an appreciation and disdain for Indian customs,... Read full biography
Born in Breckenridge, Minnesota, Fritz Scholder became a prominent Indian portrait, figure, and genre painter in Arizona. His father was part Indian, and Fritz Scholder chose to focus his art work on this part of his lineage and to express both an appreciation and disdain for Indian customs, traditions, and daily existence. He studied at the University of Kansas, Wisconsin State University, and with Wayne Thiebaud at Sacramento College in California. He earned an Master of Fine Arts Degree from... Read full biography
Born in Breckenridge, Minnesota, Fritz Scholder became a prominent Indian portrait, figure, and genre painter in Arizona. His father was part Indian, and Fritz Scholder chose to focus his art work on this part of his lineage and to express both an appreciation and disdain for Indian customs, traditions, and daily existence. He studied at the University of Kansas, Wisconsin State University, and with Wayne Thiebaud at Sacramento College in California. He earned an Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Arizona. A long-time resident of Scottsdale, Arizona, he has filled a number of artist-in-residence positions including Dartmouth College and the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute. In his work, he frequently showed the harsh,... Read full biography
Born in Breckenridge, Minnesota, Fritz Scholder became a prominent Indian portrait, figure, and genre painter in Arizona. His father was part Indian, and Fritz Scholder chose to focus his art work on this part of his lineage and to express both an appreciation and disdain for Indian customs, traditions, and daily existence. He studied at the University of Kansas, Wisconsin State University, and with Wayne Thiebaud at Sacramento College in California. He earned an Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Arizona. A long-time resident of Scottsdale, Arizona, he has filled a number of artist-in-residence positions including Dartmouth College and the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute. In his work, he frequently showed the harsh, realistic side of Indians' lives and deaths including the affects of alcohol and other dissipations, but some of his depictions are humorous suc... Read full biography
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About Fritz Scholder: Books
Books & Publications (86)
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Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art
2012
Russell, Karen Kramer
244 pages (color)
Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian
2008
Sims, Lowery Stokes; Truman Lowe; Paul Shaat Smith
192 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Phoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights
2002
Komanecky, Michael K. (editor)
352 pages (color)
Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection
2000
Troccoli, Joan Carpenter
218 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Faces of Arizona A Tribute to Arizona Artists and Patrons
1999
Sarda, Michel F
207 pages
Turning the Feather Around, My Life in Art
1998
Galt, Margot Fortunato
205 pages (color)
Indigenous Aesthetics: Native Art, Media and Identity
1998
Leuthold, Steven
238 pages
Whitney Gallery of American Art
1997
Boehme, Sarah E
78 pages (color)
Harwood Museum: Collection Handbook
1997
Ellis, Robert M. (Director)
48 pages (color)
Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art
1997
Southwest Art
128 pages
Contested Terrain Myth and Meaning in Southwest Art
1996
Udall, Sharyn R
180 pages (color)
Enduring Inspiration New Mexico Landscape Painting 1995 (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Cline Fine Art Gallery
32 pages (color)
Art Today
1995
Lucie-Smith, Edward
512 pages (color)
Native American Artists
1995
Reno, Dawn E.
230 pages
Paintings of the Southwest
1994
Skolnick, Arnold/Suzan Campbell
128 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Native American Art and Folklore A Cultural Celebration
1993
Campbell, David
224 pages (color)
Santa Fe Art
1993
Ellis, Simone
112 pages (color)
Fritz Scholder A Survey of Paintings 1970-1993
1993
Lucie-Smith, Edward
93 pages (color)
Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art
1993
Southwest Art
64 pages
Treasures From Our West
1992
Curators, Buffalo Bill Center
57 pages (color)
Artists of 20th Century New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Collection
1992
Museum of Fine Arts
167 pages (color)
Discovered Lands Invented Pasts Transforming Visions of the American West
1992
Prown, Jules; Nancy Anderson, William Cronon
217 pages (color)
Printmaking in New Mexico 1880-1990
1991
Adams, Clinton
167 pages (color)
Fritz Scholder Paintings and Monotypes (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Alexander Gallery
40 pages (color)
Shared Visions Native American Painters & Sculptors (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Archuleta, M/R R Strickland
110 pages (color)
West West West Major Paintings from the Anschutz Collection
1991
Cunningham, Elizabeth
131 pages (color)
Artists in Quotation Dictionary of Creative Thoughts of Painters etc
1989
La Cour, Donna Ward
196 pages
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
Fritz Scholder Paintings and Monotypes
1988
Strick, Jeremy
240 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
History of Western American Art
1987
Hassrick, Royal B
192 pages (color)
Fritz Scholder Mystery Women & Other Recent Works (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Sena Galleries West
16 pages (color)
Artists of New Mexico
1986
76 pages
Arizona Collects Twentieth Century Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Deeds, Daphne Anderson
64 pages
The West of the Imagination
1986
Goetzmann, William H; William N. Goetzmann
457 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Colorado Springs Fine Art Center A History and Selections from the Collection
1986
Piazza, Paul/Marshall Sprague
210 pages (color)
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans