FRITZ SCHOLDER
MASTER OF MYSTERY
Fritz Scholder (1937-2005) stands as one of the most consequential figures of 20th century American art. He is credited with having reconceptualized the portrayal of Native Americans in contemporary art, away from traditional, romanticized stereotypes to a “new realism” with candid, truthful, even startling, images of modern-day Native people. He became famous for his ground-breaking resolve to “paint the Indian real, not red.” His myriad approaches to the subject established his place as a leading progenitor of the New American Indian Art movement, which opened the door to Native American artists generally for invigorated prominence and a new artistic freedom in the contemporary art world.
Included in his exhibition are numerous iconic works that illustrate Scholder’s brilliant use of a style of figuration he innovated that became known for its evocative distortions, robust brushwork and vivid dissonant colors reminiscent of those associated with German Expressionists and seemingly resonant of the complex psychic dilemmas that ruminated in Scholder’s mind. Examples include the major paintings Shaman as a Stag, American Portrait No. 3, and Indian Land III, each of which bring together the artist’s own conceptual engagement with Native American identity and cultural veracity together with the riveting distortion of physiognomy of artists who influenced him such as Francis Bacon, David Park, and Nathan Oliveira. These paintings possess a psychological charge, raw energy, and emotional intensity that propels his work to unprecedented levels of gravitas allowing it to transcend from form itself into the realm of the spirit of form.
This diversity of his work finds expression in this exhibition with a remarkable painting that illustrates Scholder’s pioneering fusion of Pop sensibility with traditional Native American cultural imagery in the work entitled Kachina. It is an oversized rendition of a Spirit Being in the religious beliefs of the Pueblo people of the Southwest painted using bright colors and sporting a kind of crown with large round eyes conferring on the image a delightful sense of serious whimsy. The work is also an example of Scholder’s mastery of color as an expressive medium, a talent for which critics and museum curators have widely lauded him.
A man who thrived on mystery and whose life abounded in paradox, Scholder also delighted in bringing themes into his imaginative subject world derived from the orphic, mythic, superhuman, and even occult. Scholder’s favorite word was “paradox” and he saw the act of painting as one of magic.
This overarching perspective is illustrated in this exhibition by numerous other works. A vivid example is “Lilith in Purple Field”, the Biblical first wife of Adam, painted vaguely here as though a vampress beckoning to some mysterious spirit from another world. His Egyptian series also exhibits his fascination with the mythic. Egyptian ideas of the afterlife and creation myths were animating to his own creative process. The painting in this show entitled “Sphinx” depicts the famous mythical creature with the body of a lion and head of a man. One senses that in a way it is a kind of self portrait of the artist.
One of Scholder’s favorite subjects was the female figure. In this exhibition, there is included a wonderful example from his Mystery Woman series, entitled “Mystery Woman with Flowers.” Like others in this iconic series, this work is subtle and dreamlike incorporating aspects of sensuality and perplexity, in which the woman is shown from the back with alluring red gloves standing adjacent to a nondescript vase of orchids, a mordantly ironic juxtaposition. As with so much of his work, this painting demonstrates Scholder’s remarkable capacity to use paradox and puzzlement to arouse curiosity in others and set the imagination on a gratifying odyssey into his singular realm of the mysterious.
Although it was his early groundbreaking Native American works, in which Scholder “broke the mold” by revealing the reality of Indian suffering and real-world struggle in trying to live between two cultures, that initially established Scholder’s career as a leading figure in contemporary art, it is perhaps his extraordinary ability to enlist the nonconscious mind of his viewer that has solidified his reputation as one of the most diverse and powerful visual artists of his generation. In this latter regard, Scholder delved beyond literal appearances in order to explore deeper mysteries. The great art writer Edward Lucie-Smith referred to this aspect of Scholder’s body of work as the transition “from art as would-be objective representation to art as the unashamed bodying forth of subjective states.” These are the extraordinarily powerful works that depict apparitional forms emanating from the shadows and engendering feelings of deep emotion that transcend the realm of sense experience. In these works Scholder uses mystery and paradox to supplant reality.
Shaman as a Stag, c. 1981
Acrylic on canvas
80 x 68 in.
Mystery Woman with Flowers, 1987
Acrylic on canvas
80 x 68 in.
Millennium #10, 1997
Oil on canvas
80 x 67.75 in.
Lilith No. 3, 1993
Oil on canvas
80 x 68 in.
Lilith in Purple Field, c. 1992
Oil & acrylic on canvas
89 x 63.25 in.
Fallen Angel #3, 1994
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 48 in.
Mystery Woman and Yellow Bathtub, 1987
Acrylic on canvas
80 x 68 in.
Basilica Saint Francis, Santa Fe, n.d.
Acrylic on canvas
12.5 x 15.5 in.
Carnival #4, 1988 Oil on canvas
80 x 68 in.
Land Explosion, 1966
Acrylic on canvas
55.25 x 43 in.
Portrait, c. 1980s
Acrylic on paper
50 x 38 in.
Head B, 1987
Acrylic on canvas
12 x 9 in.
Academy Portrait, 1996 Oil & acrylic on canvas
48 x 30 in.
Border #7, 1992
Acrylic on paper
40 x 31 in.
Kachina, n.d.
Oil & acrylic on canvas
59.88 x 35.75 in.
NYC 3/19/82 (Empire State Building), 1982
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 in.
Mystery Woman on the Porch, 1987 Oil & acrylic on canvas
30 x 40 in.
Untitled (Indians), 1995 Oil & acrylic on paper
31 x 40.5 in.
American Portrait #3, 1980
Oil & acrylic on canvas
40 x 30 in.
Indian Land III, 1980
Acrylic on paper
30 x 22.25 in.
Woman with Black Dress, 1991
Acrylic on canvas
18 x 12 in.
Fallen Angel #7, 1994
Acrylic on paper
41 x 31 in.
Indian Contemplating Columbus (Ed. 47/50), 1991
Etching & aquatint
60 x 40 in.
American Indian No. 4, (Ed. 16/100), 1972 Original lithograph on paper 30 x 22 in.
Indian at Crow Fair (Ed. 5/20), 1979
Original lithograph on paper
33.75 x 44 in.
Fritz Scholder III and Family, II, 1981
Monotype 27.5 x 36 in.
Last Indian with American Flag (Ed. 67/150), 1975
Original lithograph on paper
36.5 x 31 in.
Indian on Horseback with Quiver, 1976 Ink on paper 7.25 x 5 in.
One Orchid, 2002
Acrylic on paper
24 x 30 in.
Man And Dog K, 1992
Monotype 24 x 17.5 in.
British Museum Mummy #6, 1987
Monotype
40 x 30.5 in.
Self Portrait in Roma (Ed. 43/50), 1978 Etching & aquatint on paper 19.25 x 15.25 in.
Sphinx, 1981
Oil on mahogany
5.5 x 4 in.
Egyptian Entity, n.d.
Acrylic on canvas
11.63 x 8 in.
Old Man, 2003
Acrylic on canvas
12 x 9 in.
Head A, n.d. Acrylic on canvas
12 x 9 in.
Cowboy Indian (Second State), Ed. 14/20, 1974
Original lithograph on paper
23 x 16 in.
Indian at the Bar (Indians Forever Suite), 1970-1971 Original lithograph on paper 30 x 22.5 in.
Pool Flowers #2, 1987
Monotype 36 x 28 in.
Indian with Button (Ed. 29/30), 1972 Original lithograph on paper
18.5 x 27.5 in.
Snake Dancer (Ed. 23/150), 1979
Original lithograph on paper
30 x 22.5 in.
with Pistol (Ed. 150/150), 1978 Original lithograph on paper 22.25 x 29.88 in.
Indian
White Orchid, 2001
Acrylic on canvas
10 x 8 in.
Mystery Woman, Summer, 1990-1991 Monotype 20 x 30 in.
Ochre Orchid on Black, 2002
Acrylic on paper
11 x 7 in.
White Orchid on Black, 2002 Acrylic on paper 11 x 7 in.
Untitled (Embracing Couple), 1995
Acrylic on paper
29.75 x 22.5 in.
Mystery Horse in Taos (Ed. 46/50), 1979 Original lithograph on paper 15 x 22.25 in.
American Family, (Ed. 79/115), 1974
Original lithograph on paper
26.13 x 19.13 in.
Laughing Artist, (Ed. 34/35), 1974 Original lithograph on paper 30 x 22 in.
Select Public Collections
Alaska State Museum, Juneau, AK
Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY
Albrecht Art Museum, Saint Joseph, MO
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Art Gallery, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Blatimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, D.C.
Burpee Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Centre Culturel Américain, Paris, France
Charles M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, MT
Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Civic Fine Arts Association, Sioux Falls, SD
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, FL
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, Davenport, IA
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
De Saisset Art Gallery, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA
Delaware Art museum, Wilmington, DE
Denver Art Museum, Denver CO
Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
El Paso Museum of Fine Arts, El Paso, TX
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint MI
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
Fort Smith Art Center, Fort Smith, AR
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Gertrude Herbert Memorial Institute of Art, Augusta, GA
Goldwater’s Department Store, Scottsdale, AZ
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
Hallmark Card Company, Kansas City, MO
Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, FL
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Louisiana State Exhibit Museum, Shreveport, LA
Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Miami, FL
Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI
Mississippi Art Association, Jackson, MS
Mobile Art Center, Mobile, AL
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg, FL
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
National Educational Association, Washington, D.C.
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
Nevada Art Gallery, Reno, NV
Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Pacific Northwest Indian Center, Spokane, WA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Philbrook art Center, Tulsa, OK
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Plains Art Museum, Moorhead, MN
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Roanoke Fine Arts Center, Roanoke, VA
Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
Sacramento City College Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
Salt Lake Art Center, Salk Lake City, UT
San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Scottsdale Fine Arts Center, Scottsdale, AZ
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Sheldon Swope Art Gallery, Terre Haute, IN
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
State Historical Society of North Dakota, Bismark, ND
Summit Art Center, Summit, ND
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN
United States Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Washington, D.C.
University Art Collections, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
University of Texas, Austin, TX
University of Utah Fine Arts Museum, Salt Lake City, UT
University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
Vermont Museum, Montpelier, VT
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, CA
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CN
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Westinghouse Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, PA
William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, MO
Worcester Art museum, Worcester, MA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT
Awards
2009 California Hall of Fame, Governor Schwarzenegger
2002 Arizona Governor’s Award
1993 Honorary Doctorate, University of Wisconsin
1991 Humanitarian Award, 14th Norsk Hostfest, Minot, ND
1990 Honorary Doctorate, College of Santa Fe
1985 Golden Plate Award, American Academy of Achievement
Honorary Doctorate, University of Arizona
1984 Societaire of the Salon d’Automne, Paris, France
Honorary Doctorate in Visual Arts, Ripon College
1983 New Mexico Governor’s Award in Visual Arts
1980 Distinguished American Indian Award. Americans for Indian Opportunity.
Albuquerque, NM
1978 Newberry Honor Book Award for “Anpao, An American
Indian Odyssey”
1977 American Academy of Arts and Letters, Award in Painting
1976 Bronze Medal for “Fritz Scholder Lithographs,” The Most Beautiful Books from All Over the World, International Leipzig Book Fair.
1972 Top Award for “Crow Chief,” Nineteen-Seventy-Two Fine Arts Biennial, Museum of New Mexico
1971 Juror’s Award, New Mexico Fine Arts Biennial, Museum of New Mexico
Award for “American Woman No. 1,” First Annual Southwestern States Exhibition, Roswell Museum of New Mexico
1970 Juror’s Award for “Indians in Transition” and "Screaming Indian No. 2,” Nineteen-Seventy Southwest Fine Arts Biennial, Museum of New Mexico
1969-70 Award for “Posing Indian No. 2,” Fourteenth Annual Sun
Carnival Art Exhibition, El Paso Museum of Art
1969 Grand Prize, Walter Bimson Grand Award, Eighth Scottsdale National Indian Arts Exhibitions, Executive House
1967 Grand Award for “Indian No. 16,” Biennial Exhibition of American Indian arts and Crafts, Center for Arts of Indian America, Washington, D.C.
1966 First Prize for Experimental Work, Fifth Scottsdale National Indian Arts Exhibition, Executive House
1965 Honorable Mention for “Land of the Song,” Hallmark Purchase Award for “Land of Song,” Fifteenth Mid-American Annual Exhibition, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts
1964 Honorable Mention, First National Watercolor Exhibit, Dulin Gallery of Art
1963 Edwin B. Hopkins Purchase Prize for “Life Puzzle,” Thirteenth Southwestern Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
First Prize for Painting by American Artists for “Bands of Land,” Centennial Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Huntington Galleries, Juror: James Johnson Sweeney
1962-63 Two-year Scholarship for work at a university leading to an MFA degree, John Hay Whitney Opportunity Fellowship
1962 Rockefeller Foundation Teaching Fellowship to University of Arizona, Southwest Indian Project Ford Foundation Purchase Award for “The Paradox,” The Southwest: Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Jurors: James Johnson Sweeney, Alexander Calder, James Brooks
1961 Rockefeller Foundation Scholarship to University of Arizona,
Southwest Indian Art Project
First Prize in Oils for “The Paradox,” California Spring Festival Art Show, State Fairgrounds
1960 Tucson Festival Award for “Land Barriers, ”Tenth Southwest Painter’s Festival Show, Tucson Art Center
Select Solo Exhibitions
2024 On Paper, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
2023 Warhol x Scholder: Cowboys & Indians, Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX
Transcendence from the Shadows, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
2022 85th Birthday Commemorative Exhibition, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
2021 Fritz Scholder: Works on Paper, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
2019 From the Indian to the Mystic, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
2017 Figures of Paradox, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
2015 Super Indian, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2013 Fritz Scholder: The Third Chapter, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM
2008 Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC
2002 Chiaroscuro Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2001 Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Last Portraits, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN
2000 Chapel for the End of the Century (installation), Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ
1999 Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ
1999 Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN
1998 The Millenium, Scottsdale Center for the Arts
1997 Oscar Howe Center, Mitchell, SD
Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Vampires & Fallen Angels, The South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, SD
1995-97 Icons and Apparitions, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ
1995 The Private Work of Fritz Scholder, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
1994 Dreaming with Open Eyes, Arizona State University Art Museum, Phonex, AZ
1982 Recent Paintings, Monotypes, Lithographs, AVA Galleries, New York, NY
The Other Side. Tally Richards Gallery of Contemporary Art, Taos, NM Flowers II, Gallery 10, Aspen, CO
Dreams/Flowers, American Portraits and Warriors. Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Monotype, El Paso Art Museum, El Paso, TX. Touring exhibition organized by the Western Association of Art Museum
1981 Paintings, Monotypes, Lithographs & Sculptures, Marilyn Butler Fine Arts, Scottsdale, AZ
Monotypes, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ
The Retrospective: 1960-1981, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
American Portraits: Icons of the Eighties, Weintraub Gallery, New York, NY
Flowers, Paintings, Monotypes, Gallery 10, Aspen, CO
Paintings, Monotypes, Lithographs, Tally Richard’s Gallery of Contemporary Art, Taos, NM
Paintings, Monotypes, Lithographs, Fresno Art Center, CA
1980 Monotypes, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX. Touring exhibition organized by the Western Association of Art Museums: Quincy Art Club, Quincy, IL; Virginia Technical University, Blacksburg, VA; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
Landscapes and Still Lifes: Paintings by Fritz Scholder, Governor’s Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
New Works: Fritz Scholder, Elaine Horwitch Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ
Flowers and Dogs, Tally Richards Gallery of Contemporary Art, Taos, NM
New Paintings, Monotypes and Lithographs, Gallery 10, Aspen, CO
Indian Land, Elaine Horwitch galleries, Santa Fe, NM
Scholder, Plains Art museum, Moorhead, MN. Touring exhibition organized by the Plains Art Museum: Moorhead State University, Moorhead, MN; Twee Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN; Dacotah Prarie Museum, Aberdeen, SD; Rochester Art Center, Rochester; MN, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN; Talley Gallery, Bemidji State University, Bemidji, MN.
American Portraits, D. Justin Lester Fine Arts, Brentwood, CA
1979 Fritz Scholder Paintings, Monotypes, Lithographs, Elaine Horwitch Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ
Indian Kitsch, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Paintings and Prints, 1966-1978, Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID. Touring, exhibition organized by the Boise Gallery of Art: Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT; Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, MT; Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA
Butterflies and Indians, D. Justin Lester Fine Arts, Brentwood, CA
Scholder at Taos, Part Two, Tally Richards Gallery of Contemporary Art, Taos, NM
Fritz Scholder Paintings, Monotypes, Lithographs, Gallery 10, Aspen, CO
Fritz Scholder, Monotypes, Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1978 Indians and Dogs, Cordier and Ekstrom, New York, NY
Fritz Scholder, Civis Art Center, Battle Creek, MI
Paintings and Prints in Fritz Scholder, Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID
Paintings, Drawings, Lithographs, Monotypes, Elained Horwitch Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ
Scholder at Taos, Tally Richards Gallery of Contemporary, Taos, NM
Fritz Scholder Indians, Cowboys, Women and Flowers, Elained Horwitch Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
Fritz Scholder Paintings, Monotypes, Lithographs, West Coast Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
1977 The Art of Fritz Scholder, Springfield Art Association, Springfield, IL
Five New Paintings and One New Lithograph, Jack O-Grady Galleries, Inc., Chicago, IL
Indian Images, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Fritz Scholder New Paintings and Lithographs, Elaine Horwitch Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ
Drawings and Lithographs, Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer, New York, NY
A Selection of Paintings, Prints and Sculpture, Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, MI
Fritz Scholder Major Indian Paintings 1967-1977, Wheelwright Museum, Santa Fe, NM
Fritz Scholder Paintings Drawings, Lithographs, Elaine Horwitch Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
Fritz Scholder Lithographs 1970-1977, Graphics 1 and Graphics 2, Boston, MA
Fritz Scholder in Retrospect 1966-1977, Jack O’Grady Galleries, Inc., Chicago, IL
1976 Lithographs, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, in cooperation with Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM
American Portraits, Cordier and Ekstrom, New York, NY
Fritz Scholder Paintings and Lithographs, Duryea Hall Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
Paintings, Drawings, Lithographs, Etchings, Elaine Horwitch Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ
Lithographs, Fresno Art Center, Fresno, CA
An Exhibition of Prints, The Print Cabinet, Wilton, CN
Scholder/Women, Bob Tomlinson Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Fritz Scholder Show, Art Gallery, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
Indian Images, University of North Dakota Art Galleries, Grand Forks, ND
Fritz Scholder – New Paintings and Lithographs, Elaine Horwitch Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
Fritz Scholder Ptings and Drawings, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
1975 Paintings, Drawings, Lithographs, Fetishes, Elaine Horwitch Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ
Paintings and Lithography, Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ
Indians and Landscapes, Tally Richards Gallery of Contemporary art, Taos, NM
Paintings, Drawings, Lithographs, Etchings, Bronzes, Jamison Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
Scholder Collects Scholder, De Saisset Art Gallery, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA
1974 Fritz Scholder, Cordier and Ekstrom, New York, NY
Fritz Scholder, Elained Horwitch Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ
Fritz Scholder Retrospective, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN
Fritz Scholder Paintings, Drawings, Lithographs, Aspen Gallery of Art, Aspen, CO
Fritz Scholder, Indians in Gallup, New Mexico, International Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
Fritz Scholder, Jamison Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
Fritz Scholder in Egypt, Mary Moore Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Fritz Scholder: One Man Exhibition of Oils and Graphics, Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco, CA
Fritz Scholder, Gallery Moos, Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Fritz Scholder, Union Gallery, University of Texas, El Paso, TX
Fritz Scholder, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
1973 Scholder Lithographs, Student Union Gallery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Fritz Scholder Indians/Vampires, Art Wagon Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ
Fritz Scholder – Indians, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Fritz Scholder Paintings and Lithographs, Charles M. Russell Gallery, Great Falls, MT
Fritz Scholder Paintings and Lithographs, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT
New Paintings, Lithographs, Drawings, Bronzes, Tally Richards, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Taos, NM
Fritz Scholder New Paintings, Lithographs, Drawings, Jamison Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
Artist in Residence, Jaffe-Freide Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Fritz Scholder – Indians, Michael Wyman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1972 Paintings and Lithographs, Wagon Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ
Scholder Collects Scholder, St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM
Michael Smith Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Paintings, Lithographs, Jamison Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
Scholder/Drawings, Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Fritz Scholder, Cordier and Ekstrom, New York, NY
Lithographs and Paintings, Peter M. David Gallery, Inc., Minneapolis, MN
Paintings and Lithographs, Luther College, Decorah, IA: Touring exhibition organized by the Cedar Rapids Art Center: Cedar Rapids Art Center, Cedar Rapids, IA; Sheldon Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; Albrecht Gallery, Saint Joseph, MO; Dubuque Art Association, Dubuque, IA.
Lithographs and Drawings, Marquoit Galleries, San Francisco, CA
1971 Fritz Scholder, Esther Bear Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
Fritz Scholder – Paintings, The Store, Santa Barbara, CA
Fritz Scholder, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Indians and Women, Jamison Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
Paintings and Lithographs, Library Gallery, Southwest Missouri State College, Springfield, MO
New Paintings, Drawings, Lithographs, Tally Richards Gallery of Contemporary Art, Taos, NM
Scholder at Tamarind, Jamison Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
1970 Fritz Scholder – New Indian Oils, Lee Nordness Galleries, New York, NY
Fritz Scholder, Janus Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Art Gallery, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM
1969 Fritz Scholder, Fairmount Gallery, Dallas, TX
1968 Fritz Scholder, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
1967 Fritz Scholder Paintings: Stripes, Butterflies, Indians, Collectors Gallery, Bellevue, WA
An Exhibition of Paintings – Fritz Scholder, Liberal Arts Center, College of Santa Fe, NM
1964 M.F.A. Exhibition, Museum of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
1963 Fritz Scholder, Hali’s 261, Tucson, AZ
1959 Fritz Scholder, Artist’s Cooperative Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Fritz Scholder One-Man Show, crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1958 Fritz Scholder, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA
Adams, Clinton. Fritz Scholder Lithographs. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975.
Archuleta, Margaret and Dr. Rennard Strickland. Shared Visions: Native American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century. Phoenix: The Heard Museum, 1991.
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Taylor, Joshua Charles. Fritz Scholder. New York: Rizzoli, 1982.
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