One from a portfolio of eight lithographs
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Fritz Scholder had a complex relationship with Indigenous representation, seeking to expand the range and the tenor of how images create meaning and memory. He was an educator and painter, working as an instructor at the Institute of American Indian Art from 1964 to 1969. Always interested in expanding his practice, in 1970 he began to create lithographs and monographs—intrigued by the versatility of the print medium and its serial nature. In his Indians Forever portfolio, Scholder conveys emotional and historical depth by drawing on archival photographs of Native American people, shifting or erasing the background, and exaggerating particular characteristics—a feather, a beer can, a coat, umbrellas—all elements that resist stereotype through an increased emphasis on texture and subtle details of expression.
2026
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