Fritz Scholder, Lithograph, "American Family". Signed and numbered 46/115, lower right. Framed under plexiglass.

Overall Size: 35 x 27 1/2 in.

Sight Size: 28 1/2 x 21 in.

Fritz Scholder, a Native American artist and experienced lithographer, was born in 1937 in Breckenridge Minnesota. Encouraged to paint in 1950 by Oscar Howe and Wayne Thiebaud, Scholder says "...it is my intention not only to set up graphically a new visual experience for the viewer, but also to make a statement in regard to the society and land in which we, the descendants of the American Indian, live. I am well aware that my paintings are not literal, for to me some ideas require unique statements. I try to capture not only the physical, but the inner and even spiritual." He currently (2004) lives in Scottsdale, Arizona and Galisteo, New Mexico. Scholder has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad. His work is included in many public and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Hirschhorn Museum of Fine Arts, Washington,D.C.; the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institute; and the Boston Fine Arts Museum.

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