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.
Fritz Scholder, "Walking Dog" Lithograph, 1977
By Fritz Scholder
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Fritz Scholder (1937 2005) Walking Dog 1977 Lithograph, Edition 80/100 Hand signed "Scholder" lower right, numbered lower left. Full sheet size, 22 inches x 30 inches. Printer: Tam...
Lithograph
$4,500
One Cat D
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...
Monotype
Art '78 - Washington D.C. Armory Show, Pop Art Poster by Fritz Scholder
By Fritz Scholder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Art ‘78 - Washington D.C. Armory Show Fritz Scholder Native American (1937–2005) Date: 1978 Screenprint Poster Size: 32 x 30 in. (81.28 x 76.2 cm)
Screen
$2,200
"Second Dream" Modern Abstract Purple Toned Figurative Lithograph 11 of 79
By Fritz Scholder
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract lithograph with a figure clutching a pink object with an enigmatic background. The lithograph is edition 11 of 79. The piece is framed in a floating silver frame with a whit...
Lithograph
Bicentennial Indian from the Kent Bicentennial Portfolio by Fritz Scholder
By Fritz Scholder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bicentennial Indian by Fritz Scholder, Native American (1937–2005) Portfolio: Kent Bicentennial Date: 1975 Offset Lithograph (unsigned as issued) Image Size: 9.5 x 13 inches Frame Si...
Lithograph
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ASU Portrait II /// Fritz Scholder Native American Indian Expressionist Surreal
By Fritz Scholder
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Fritz Scholder (Native American, 1937-2005) Title: "ASU Portrait II" Portfolio: Arizona State University Centennial Portfolio *Signed by Scholder in pencil lower right Year: 1984 Medium: Original Lithograph on Arches Cover buff paper Limited edition: 49/100 Printer: Joseph M. Segura of the Print Research Facility, School of Art, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Publisher: the Print Research Facility, School of Art, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Sheet size: 20.25" x 15" Reference: "Collaborative Works: Recent Work and Catalogue Raisonné of the Visual Arts Research Institute" - ASU/VARI No. 121, page 98 Condition: Never framed, has been professionally stored away within its original portfolio case for decades. In mint condition Not a single example of this work has ever appeared at auction in over 40 years. Extremely rare Notes: Provenance: one owner ever - private collection - Scottsville, AZ; acquired directly from the publisher the Print Research Facility, School of Art, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ upon its release in 1984. Numbered by Scholder in pencil lower left. Comes from the 1984 "Arizona State University Centennial Portfolio" of eighteen prints in various mediums by Daniel R Britton, R. E. (Ron) Gasowski, Arthur W. Hahn, James Hajicek, Jules Heller...
Lithograph
$1,700
Fritz Scholder American artist 1982 original hand signed engraving protrait
By Fritz Scholder
Located in Miami, FL
Fritz Scholder (United States, 1937-2005) 'Mystery portrait in Barcelona -1', 1982 engraving on paper 30 x 22.1 in. (76 x 56 cm.) ID: SCH1341-006-000 Unframed
Ink, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
$1,700
Fritz Scholder American artist 1982 original hand signed engraving texture mask
By Fritz Scholder
Located in Miami, FL
Fritz Scholder (United States, 1937-2005) 'Untitled 1', engraving on paper 30 x 22.1 in. (76 x 56 cm.) ID: SCH1341-007-000 Unframed
Paper, Ink, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Bicentennial Indian, Pop Art Offset Lithograph by Fritz Scholder
By Fritz Scholder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Fritz Scholder, Native American (1937 - 2005) - Bicentennial Indian, Portfolio: Kent Bicentennial Portfolio, Year: 1975, Medium: Offset Lithograph, Image Size: 9.5 x 13 inches, S...
Lithograph, Offset
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Custer's Last Fight
By Fritz Scholder
Located in Missouri, MO
Fritz Scholder (1937-2005) "Custer's Last Fight" Lithograph Ed. 54/75 Signed and Numbered Site Size: approx 22 x 30 inches Framed Size: approx. 35 x 41.5 inches 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 such as Indians on horseback carrying umbrellas. His brush-work is generally swift, and the tone often sombre 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...
Paper, Lithograph
$290
H 19.69 in W 27.56 in D 0.04 in
Woman With A Flower - Lithograph by Michael Ciomakov - 1970s
By Michael Ciomakov
Located in Roma, IT
Woman With A Flower is a colored lithograph on Fabriano paper realized by the artist Michael Ciomakov in the 1970s . Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right. Numbered on the lowe...
Lithograph
$1,875
H 40 in W 32.75 in
Crisalida, Hand Signed Lithograph, Edition of 100, Framed, 1987
By José María Mijares
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil by the artist. Edition of 100. Frame size: 40 x 32.75 inches. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity inc...
Lithograph, Paper
$6,560
H 27.625 in W 33.875 in
Homage a Leonardo d'Vinci (Battle Scene I from De La Bataille Vol. I)
By Claude Weisbuch
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Art: 17" x 23 1/4" Frame: 27 5/8" x 33 7/8" Original color lithograph (VIII/L) Signed lower right. This original Weisbuch lithograph comes from th...
Lithograph
Kunsthalle Helsinki Exhibition poster
By David Hockney
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Offset Lithograph (poster) Edition of Unknown Size Unsigned 27.56 x 19.68 in (70.0 x 50.0 cm) This is an original, authorized David Hockney poster, produced by the Kunsthalle Hels...
Lithograph
$900
H 18.88 in W 12.88 in
'Eyes for the Night' — Mid-century American Surrealism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Benton Spruance, 'Eyes for the Night', lithograph, 1947, edition 35, Fine and Looney 260. Signed, dated, titled, and annotated 'Ed 35' in pencil. A fine impression, on heavy, cream ...
Lithograph
Cul de Sac
By Alexandre Minguet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Cul de Sac" is an original color lithograph by French artist Alexandre Minguet, 1937-1996. The image size is 7 x 11 inches, framed size is 17.35 x 21.5 inches. I...
Lithograph
$600
H 16 in W 16 in D 1 in
The Letter "R" by Romero Britto, Hand Signed, Pop Art, Framed, 2018
By Romero Britto
Located in Aventura, FL
Digital print on canvas. Hand signed lower right by Romero Britto. Open edition of an unknown size. Britto Studio stamp on verso. Custom framed as pictured. Canvas size: 11 x 11 ...
Gesso, Board, Screen
$250
H 37.41 in W 23.63 in
Pierre Alechinsky Belgian 1982 Original FIFA Soccer World Cup Poster lithograph
By Pierre Alechinsky
Located in Miami, FL
"Pierre Alechinsky (Belgium, 1927) 'Dribbling (Alicante)', 1982 Original poster from 1982 FIFA Soccer World Cup lithograph on paper 37.5 x 23.7 in. (9...
Lithograph
$12,000
H 13.32 in W 10.38 in
'Financial District', New York City — American Modernism
By Howard Norton Cook
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Howard Cook, 'Financial District', lithograph, 1931, edition 75, Duffy 155. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with wide margins (2 3/4 to 5 5/8 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 13 5/16 x 10 3/8 inches (338 x 264 mm); sheet size 23 x 16 inches (584 x 406 mm). Matted to museum standards, unframed. Literature: 'American Master Prints from the Betty and Douglas Duffy Collection', the Trust for Museum Exhibitions, Washington, D.C., 1987. Collections: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum. ABOUT THE ARTIST Howard Norton Cook (1901-1980) was one of the best-known of the second generation of artists who moved to Taos. A native of Massachusetts, he studied at the Art Students League in New York City and at the Woodstock Art Colony. Beginning his association with Taos in 1926, he became a resident of the community in the 1930s. During his career, he received two Guggenheim Fellowships and was elected an Academician in the National Academy of Design. He earned a national reputation as a painter, muralist, and printmaker. Cook’s work in the print mediums received acclaim early in his career with one-person exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum (1927) and the Museum of New Mexico (1928). He received numerous honors and awards over the years, including selection in best-of-the-year exhibitions sponsored by the American Institute of Graphics Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Society of American Etchers, and the Philadelphia Print Club. His first Guggenheim Fellowship took him to Taxco, Mexico in 1932 and 1933; his second in the following year enabled him to travel through the American South and Southwest. Cook painted murals for the Public Works of Art Project in 1933 and the Treasury Departments Art Program in 1935. The latter project, completed in Pittsburgh, received a Gold Medal from the Architectural League of New York. One of his most acclaimed commissions was a mural in the San Antonio Post Office in 1937. He and Barbara Latham settled in Talpa, south of Taos, in 1938 and remained there for over three decades. Cook volunteered in World War II as an Artist War Correspondent for the US Navy, where he was deployed in the Pacific. In 1943 he was appointed Leader of a War Art Unit...
Lithograph
Little Boodge (1993) after David Hockney
By David Hockney
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Offset lithograph Unsigned 11.02 x 16.54 in (28.0 x 42.0 cm) This is a vintage artist-authorised David Hockney poster print, printed in 1993. This is not a later reproduction. The ...
Lithograph
$1,500
H 17 in W 11.75 in
Ai Weiwei - Have You Seen Ai Weiwei's Cats? poster (Hand Signed by Ai Weiwei)
By Ai Weiwei
Located in New York, NY
Offset lithograph poster Boldly signed in red marker by Ai Weiwei, and bearing the Kettle's Yard gallery logo (unnumbered, from a limited edition of fewer than 50 hand signed) The "H...
Offset
$475
H 7.125 in W 8.375 in
GREETINGS FROM THE HOUSE OF WEYHE. Many Known Artists Inside the Gallery
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MAYBEL DWIGHT (1875 - 1955) GREETINGS FROM THE HOUSE OF WEYHE, 1928 Lithograph, signed in the plate. Image 7 1/8 x 8 3/8” + printed title. Sheet 8 ¼ x 9” as issued. Xmas card iss...
Lithograph
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H 30 in W 21.07 in
Indian in Paris /// Fritz Scholder Native American Contemporary Lithograph Man
By Fritz Scholder
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Fritz Scholder (Native American, 1937-2005) Title: "Indian in Paris" *Signed by Scholder in pencil lower right Year: 1976 Medium: Original Lithograph on Arches paper Limited ...
Lithograph
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H 19.25 in W 15 in
Monster Love, Abstract Expressionist Lithograph by Fritz Scholder
By Fritz Scholder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Fritz Scholder, Native American (1937 - 2005) - Monster Love, Year: circa 1977, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 71/150, Image Size: 11.5 x 9.75 inches...
Lithograph
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H 18 in W 22 in
Bicentennial Indian, Pop Art Offset Lithograph by Fritz Scholder
By Fritz Scholder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Fritz Scholder, Native American (1937 - 2005) - Bicentennial Indian, Portfolio: Kent Bicentennial Portfolio, Year: 1975, Medium: Offset Lithograph, Image Size: 9.5 x 13 inches, S...
Lithograph, Offset
Orange Tulip Color Monotype Signed
By Fritz Scholder
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Orange Tulip Color Monotype, handmade archival paper, pencil signed and titled paper size 40.5x31 inches with frame 49x38.5x1/25 printed: Joseph M. Segura of the Print Research Facility, School of Art, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Wielding bold colors and abstract shapes, Fritz Scholder forever changed the way the world saw American Indians in art. Scholder was one-quarter Luiseño, a Southern California tribe, but was raised as white, a dichotomy that later would inform the themes of his artwork. Interested in art from an early age, he moved to Sacramento in 1957 and enrolled first at Sacramento City College, where he studied under Pop artist Wayne Thiebaud, and then at Sacramento State College. He had his first solo exhibition and sold his first major painting in Sacramento, but after graduating struggled to support himself and his family. Then came the welcome news that he had received a full scholarship to participate in the Rockefeller Foundation’s Southwest Indian Art...
Monotype
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H 22 in W 30 in D 0.08 in
Fritz Scholder Native American Signed Color Lithograph, 1973
By Fritz Scholder
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Fritz Scholder original color lithograph, signed in pencil lower right. Edition is 50 of which this print is no. 46. Created 1973. In excellent condition - Unmatted and un-framed. ...
Paper, Ink
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H 30 in W 22 in
Fritz William Scholder American 1982 original hand signed engraving flower etchi
By Fritz Scholder
Located in Miami, FL
Fritz Scholder (United States, 1937-2005) 'Untitled III', 1982 Etching and aquatint 30 x 22.1 in. (76 x 56 cm.) ID: SCH1341-009 Unframed
Paper, Ink, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
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H 30 in W 22 in
Fritz Scholder American Artist Original Hand Signed engraving
By Fritz Scholder
Located in Miami, FL
Fritz Scholder (United States, 1937-2005) 'Untitled 2', engraving on paper 30 x 22.1 in. (76 x 56 cm.) ID: SCH1341-008-000 Unframed
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H 30 in W 22 in
Fritz William Scholder American artist 1982 original signed engraving mask
By Fritz Scholder
Located in Miami, FL
Fritz Scholder (American, 1937-2005) 'Mask of the artist', 1982 Engraving, aquatint and resin 30 x 22.1 in. (76 x 56 cm.) ID: SCH1341-005 Unframed
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H 30 in W 22 in
Fritz Scholder American Artist 1982 Original Hand Signed engraving
By Fritz Scholder
Located in Miami, FL
Fritz Scholder (United States, 1937-2005) 'Self portrait in Barcelona', 1982 engraving on paper 30 x 22.1 in. (76 x 56 cm.) ID: SCH1341-003-000 Unframed
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H 30 in W 22 in
Fritz Scholder American artist 1982 original hand signed engraving mask woman
By Fritz Scholder
Located in Miami, FL
Fritz Scholder (United States, 1937-2005) 'Mask of a mystery woman', 1982 engraving on paper 30 x 22.1 in. (76 x 56 cm.) ID: SCH1341-002-000 Unframed
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H 30 in W 22 in
Fritz Scholder American Artist 1982 Original Hand Signed engraving
By Fritz Scholder
Located in Miami, FL
Fritz Scholder (United States, 1937-2005) 'Flower al giverney - 2', 1982 engraving on paper 30 x 22.1 in. (76 x 56 cm.) ID: SCH1341-001-000 Unframed
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H 32 in W 24 in D 1 in
"Second Dream" Abstract Figurative Lithograph 11 of 79
By Fritz Scholder
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract lithograph with a figure clutching a pink object with an enigmatic background. The lithograph is edition 11 of 79. The piece is framed in a floating silver frame with a white backing. The artist signed and editioned the lithograph. Dimensions without Frame: H 30 in x W 22 in. Artist Biography: Scholder has always worked in series of paintings. In 1967, his new series on the Native American, depicting the "real Indian...
Lithograph