Luiseño Indian Fritz Scholder Lithograph “Hopi Dancers” Artist Proof [SOLD]

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Fritz Scholder, Luiseño Indian Artist
  • Category: Original Prints
  • Origin: The Luiseño - Payómkawichum
  • Medium: stone lithograph on buff Arches paper
  • Size:
    22” x 30” image;
    28-⅛ x 35-¾” framed
  • Item # C4385A
  • SOLD

“Hopi Dancers” is one of Luiseño artist Fritz Scholder’s finest lithographs.  Using just two striking colors—a bold blue and a bright red—he created a row of pueblo dancers so rich in depth and dimension that they seem almost real.  Their faces are expressive, and their bodies appear to actually be in motion.  They hold rattles, rain sashes, and evergreen boughs—an interesting bit of highly specific detail in a piece that seems to come more from the heart than the head.  The bright blue ink is opaque in some areas and cloudy in others, adding to the lithograph’s rich texture.  The red ink is dazzling and impenetrable, extending from the dancers out to the piece’s exposed edges.  Shadow and negative space are, here, as important as outline and shading.  This piece is all feeling, an expressionist wonder that contains more energy than would a traditionally representational piece.

Completed with just two colors, “Hopi Dancers” uses the unique medium of lithography to its fullest potential.  This lithograph was completed in May 1974 in two colors, in an edition of 75.  This is an artist proof.  The image is featured on page 113 of Clinton Adams’ book Fritz Scholder Lithographs.  This lithograph is mounted with its edges exposed, so that the entire image is visible.  It was executed at Tamarind Institute, the renowned lithography workshop in Albuquerque that is affiliated with the University of New Mexico.  A second state was also created using just black ink.  

Signature of Fritz Scholder, Luiseño Indian PainterThe lithograph is signed by the artist and marked with the chop marks of Tamarind, Scholder, and printer Ben Q. Adams.  It is mounted with its edges exposed, on a white backing in a gold and black frame. 

Fritz Scholder (1937-2005) was a contemporary American painter who was by birth one-quarter Luiseño Indian, a California Mission Tribe. 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.  In the summer of 1970, an organization called Tamarind moved to Albuquerque from Los Angeles. At that time, Tamarind was already known as America's foremost lithographic workshop. In Albuquerque, it moved into 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.  Despite some initial struggles, Scholder had a productive and successful career with Tamarind. Over several years, he produced 92 lithographs at Tamarind.  Lithography was well suited to Scholder’s talents and he rapidly won international acclaim for his work in that medium.  Scholder passed away in 2005, leaving behind a body of work that has remained both relevant and collectible.

Condition: excellent condition

Provenance: this Luiseño Indian Fritz Scholder Lithograph "Hopi Dancers" Artist Proof is from the large collection of a Santa Fe family

Recommended Reading:

FRITZ SCHOLDER New Paintings and Lithographs

- FRITZ SCHOLDER LITHOGRAPHS text by Clinton Adams

Relative Links: Fritz ScholderLuiseñoNative American artSanta FelithographsAlbuquerque

Close up view of a portion of this painting by Luiseño Indian Painter Fritz Scholder

Fritz Scholder, Luiseño Indian Artist
  • Category: Original Prints
  • Origin: The Luiseño - Payómkawichum
  • Medium: stone lithograph on buff Arches paper
  • Size:
    22” x 30” image;
    28-⅛ x 35-¾” framed
  • Item # C4385A
  • SOLD

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