Original Lithograph “Indians with Umbrellas” [SOLD]

Scholder was a contemporary American artist who was by birth one-quarter Luiseño Indian, a California Mission Tribe. He was born in Minnesota, spent two decades in the Dakotas, and lived in Galisteo, NM and Scottsdale, AZ. Scholder came to Santa Fe in 1964 to teach advanced painting and art history at the new Institute of American Indian Arts, a school established by the United States Department of the Interior. He had obtained a Masters of Fine Arts degree at the University of Arizona in 1964 before moving to Santa Fe and the Institute.

In the summer of 1970, a company named Tamarind moved to Albuquerque from Los Angeles. It was already well known as America's foremost lithographic workshop for a decade by then. In Albuquerque it was housed in a building adjacent to the campus of the University of New Mexico. Once established in New Mexico, Tamarind selected Fritz Scholder as its first New Mexico artist to produce lithographs at its new facility.

Scholder had a long and productive and very successful career with Tamarind. Over several years, he produced 92 lithographs at Tamarind. Lithography was well suited to the talents of Scholder and he rapidly won international acclaim for his work in that medium.

This lithograph entitled "Indians with Umbrellas" was completed in March 1971.  It is a four-color lithograph printed on buff Arches in an edition of 75. This is #18 of the edition.  It was printed by John Butke at Tamarind.

Both the chops of the master printer and Tamarind Institute appear on lower edges of the paper. The edition number is written in lower left and the artist's signature in lower right of the paper. 

Condition: The lithograph is in original excellent condition. It is floated on acid-free mat-board and framed in a simple wood frame.

Provenance: from the collection of Katherine H. Rust

Recommended Reading:  This lithograph is illustrated in Fritz Scholder Lithographs by Clinton Adams