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Lot 7015
Fritz Scholder (Native American, 1937-2005), Map 7
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Monotype in colors, pencil signed and titled, with accompanying gallery paperwork and gallery label to verso, full margins, matted and framed.

Sheet size 31 x 22 3/4 in.; Frame dimensions 39 3/8 x 31 in.

LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Scholder studied at Sacramento City College with Wayne Thiebaud, who exposed him to the Pop art movement and also arranged his first solo exhibition. Scholder's vigorous and confident paint application brings to mind the work of Abstract Expressionists Franz Kline and de Kooning; elsewhere anthropomorphized animal forms and somber portraits recall the dark figuration of Francis Bacon and the edginess of Edvard Munch.

Fritz's awards include fellowships from the Ford, Rockefeller and Whitney foundations. His artwork is in the permanent collections of major museums, including the National Gallery and the National Museum of American Art in Washington and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2008, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian mounted an unprecedented dual-city career retrospective in both New York City and Washington, D.C.

Excellent condition; some sheet waviness and slight wear near hinging inherent to printing process; not examined out of frame.