Fritz Scholder Figurative Paintings

Native American, 1937-2005

Fritz Scholder was born in Breckenridge, Minnesota, on October 6, 1937. Scholder was a prominent Indian portrait, figure and genre painter in Arizona. His father was part Indian and Fritz Scholder chose to focus his artwork on this part of his lineage and to express both an appreciation and disdain for Indian customs, traditions and daily existence. In his childhood, where he was the fifth sibling in a primarily German family, he showed a passion for collecting, which has dominated his largely autobiographical art. He studied at the University of Kansas, Wisconsin State University and with Wayne Thiebaud at Sacramento College in California. He earned a master of fine arts degree from the University of Arizona. A long-time resident of Scottsdale, Arizona, he has filled several 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 effects of alcohol and other dissipations, but some of his depictions are humorous such as Indians on horseback carrying umbrellas. His brush-work is generally swift, and the tone often somber and surreal. A major influence on his work was the contemporary British artist, Francis Bacon, from whom Scholder adapted ironic distortions into his canvases. In Scottsdale, he lived in an adobe-walled oasis of palm trees and oleander, amid skulls and skeletons. In the garden, several of Mr. Scholder's sculptures feature skull-like heads. In the library, an 18th-century skull engraved with witchcraft symbols shared shelf space with books printed before 1500. And the porch had been converted into a skull room, complete with Mexican Day of the Dead paraphernalia that spill from cabinets and rest on shelves and antique chairs. In a New York Times interview of August 12, 2001, Scholder said that despite the death-related items with which he surrounds himself, “I consider myself a natural optimist which might be surprising because I like the dark side of things. That's simply because of intellectual curiosity. I celebrate each day. I truly wake up happy every morning”. In appearance, he was rather a heavy set with shoulder-length hair and a radiant smile. He was shy and idiosyncratic including the driving of a gold 1979 Rolls-Royce fitted with tinted windows. His career includes etchings, aquatints, lithographs, monotypes, photographs, collages, sculptures and mixed media, but he is best known for his paintings. He was married to Lisa Markgraf Fisher and had one son. In his artwork, death had been a constant preoccupation for Scholder. He said, “Death is completely fearful, terrible violence that intrudes into what people believe. It's not what I want to think about, but it's there and is either the worst practical joke in the creation or the fault of whoever made all this up”. Fritz Scholder died February 10, 2005, at age 67 in Scottsdale, and a memorial service was held at the Heard Museum in Phoenix.

Artist: Fritz Scholder

Fritz ScholderWoman and Dog #6

$43,000

Woman and Dog #6

By Fritz Scholder

Located in Bozeman, MT

Born in 1937 in Breckenridge, Minnesota, Fritz Scholder knew what he must do at an early age. As a high school student at Pierre, South Dakota, his teacher was Oscar Howe, a noted Sioux artist. In the summer of 1955, Scholder attended the Mid-West Art and Music Camp at the University of Kansas. He was voted Best Boy Artist and President of the Art Camp. He studied with Robert B. Green at Lawrence. In 1956, Scholder graduated from Ashland High School in Wisconsin and took his freshman year at Wisconsin State University in Superior, where he studied with Arthur Kruk, James Grittner and Michael Gorski. In 1957, Scholder moved with his family to Sacramento, California where he studied with Wayne Thiebaud. Thiebaud invited Scholder to join him, along with Greg Kondos and Peter Vandenberg in creating a cooperative gallery in Sacramento. Scholder’s first show received an exceptional review. Scholder’s next one man exhibition was at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. His work was being shown throughout the region, including the Palace of Legion of Honor in San Francisco. Upon graduation, from Sacramento State University, where he studied with Tarmo Pasto and Raymond Witt, Scholder was invited to participate in the Rockefeller Indian Art Project at the University of Arizona in 1961. Scholder is one-quarter Luseino, a California Mission tribe. He met Cherokee designer, Lloyd Kiva New and studied with Hopi jeweler, Charles Loloma. After receiving a John Hay Whitney Fellowship, Scholder moved to Tucson and became a graduate assistant in the Fine Arts Department where he studied with Andrew Rush and Charles Littler...

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Late 20th Century Contemporary Fritz Scholder Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Michael ToleThe Dissidents: Discourse on the Golden Mean, 2022

$20,000

H 48 in W 64 in

The Dissidents: Discourse on the Golden Mean

By Michael Tole

Located in New Orleans, LA

Michael Tole says of his work… This work draws a connection between the didactic moralizing tendencies of Neo Classicism (represented in the style of the painting) and Modernism (represented in the architectural setting). Though modern art eschews the naturalistic imagery used by Neo Classicists, both movements pursued a self-important, austere, self-consciously masculine aesthetic that they saw as synonymous with virtue. Set in the MoMA courtyard, a passel of men lounge about, regarding a golden statue which looks terribly out of place in this modernist vitrine. The uncomfortable architectural setting, prisonlike and cold, provides a foil for the odalisque-like young men sprawled on hard stone benches and paying homage to the central idol. In my current work, The Revisionist Histories, I am writing letters to art history, literature, and mythology in an attempt to reflect the social changes that have reshaped our society over the past century. As part of this agenda, I explore the evolution of gender norms, power dynamics, and representation within Western visual culture and what this implies for the negotiation between pleasure, justice, and our culturally specific discourse on beauty. The seed for The Revisionist Histories was sewn when I caught a glimpse of my preteen daughters watching music videos on their iPad as I chopped veggies for dinner. Out of the corner of my eye I caught glimpses of music videos featuring Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, and Doja Cat gyrating across the tiny screen. A better parent might have snatched the iPad away, but I was overcome with hallucinatory visions of this pop diva...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Fritz Scholder Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Andrée de Frémont“Cypress Alley” French Riviera in the Light of the South, Mixed Media Painting, 2019

$3,712

H 25.6 in W 21.26 in D 0.79 in

“Cypress Alley” French Riviera in the Light of the South, Mixed Media Painting

By Andrée de Frémont

Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

To evoke the French Riviera and the light of the South, a sketch made by Andrée de Frémont on the French Riviera has become canvas. It is camping a h...

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2010s Contemporary Fritz Scholder Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

Hope HickmanHappy Birthday, 2025

$850

H 20 in W 18 in D 2 in

Happy Birthday

Located in New Orleans, LA

Hope Hickman says of her work... I am tormented by aesthetic seduction, by what I can only call the romantic. My practice processes, through haptic intuition, the look of wealth, of...

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2010s Contemporary Fritz Scholder Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Teona YamanidzeGeorgian Contemporary Art by Teona Yamanidze - Ortonesque, 2022

$3,000

H 19.69 in W 19.69 in D 1.19 in

Georgian Contemporary Art by Teona Yamanidze - Ortonesque

By Teona Yamanidze

Located in Paris, IDF

Oil on canvas

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2010s Contemporary Fritz Scholder Figurative Paintings

Materials

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Nino Eliashvili Georgian Contemporary Art by Nino Eliashvili - Twin Flame, 2020

$21,200

H 39.38 in W 31.5 in D 1.19 in

Georgian Contemporary Art by Nino Eliashvili - Twin Flame

By Nino Eliashvili

Located in Paris, IDF

Oil on canvas

Category

2010s Contemporary Fritz Scholder Figurative Paintings

Materials

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Jered SprecherTwo, 2018

$3,800

H 16 in W 12 in

Two

By Jered Sprecher

Located in New Orleans, LA

As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Inc...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Fritz Scholder Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Previously Available Items

Fritz ScholderDartmouth Portrait # 9, 1973

Sold

H 67 in W 54 in

Dartmouth Portrait # 9

By Fritz Scholder

Located in Denver, CO

A master work from Scholder's renowned Dartmouth series. Provenance: Cordier & Eckstrom, Inc., New York Private Collection, New Mexico Private Collection, Aspen, Colorado Curt...

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20th Century Other Art Style Fritz Scholder Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

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