Fritz Scholder

Luiseno painter and printmaker, educator (1937-2005)

Fritz William Scholder Vwas a Native American artist, who produced paintings, monotypes, lithographs, and sculptures. Scholder was an enrolled member of the La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians, a federally recognized tribe of Luisenos, a California Mission tribe.

About the Fritz Scholder

Fritz William Scholder Vwas a Native American artist, who produced paintings, monotypes, lithographs, and sculptures. Scholder was an enrolled member of the La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians, a federally recognized tribe of Luisenos, a California Mission tribe. Scholder’s most influential works were post-modern in sensibility and somewhat Pop Art in execution as he sought to deconstruct the mythos of the American Indian. A teacher at the Institute of American Indian Artsin Santa Fe in the late 1960s, Scholder instructed prominent Native American students.