Content Description
This collection houses exhibition invitations and flyers, cards designed and printed by Scholder, photographs, speeches, daily calendars, promotional material, newspaper clippings, magazines, and a ceramic cup documenting the life and work of artist Fritz Scholder.
Dates
- Creation: 1973 - 2005
Conditions Governing Access
To view this collection, please contact Ask an Archivist or call (480) 965-4932 at least five days in advance. Appointments in the Wurzburger Reading Room at Hayden Library (rm. 138) on the Tempe campus are available Monday through Friday. Patrons can also arrange to view this collection at the Labriola National American Indian Data Center (rm. 305) at Fletcher Library on the West campus. Check the ASU Library Hours page for current availability.
Conditions Governing Use
The Arizona Board of Regents retains copyright to this collection for and on behalf of the Arizona State University Library. Requests to publish, display, or redistribute information from this collection must be submitted via our online application.
Biographical / Historical
Artist Fritz William Scholder was born in Breckenridge, Minnesota in 1937 and began working as an artist at a young age. His works were immediately recognized for their insight and powerful commentary on publicly held stereotypes of Native Americans and propelled Scholder into a position of prominence as an artist. His revolutionary paintings broke away from stereotypical roles and forever changed the concept of Indian artist.
Scholder's constant desire to explore, collect, travel, and experience is undoubtedly the distinguishing feature of both his life and his art. Scholder is best known for his expressionist paintings that are in museum collections around the world. His style is well known for its distortions, explosive brushwork, and vivid colors. Scholder died on February 10, 2005 in Phoenix, Arizona.
Source: Fritz Scholder's official website (http://fritzscholder.com/index.php). This resource contains a more complete biography of Scholder.
Full extent
2 Linear Feet
Full extent
4 Box(es)
Full extent
3 Photograph(s)
Language of materials
English
Abstract
This collection houses exhibition invitations and flyers, cards designed and printed by Scholder, photographs, speeches, daily calendars, promotional material, newspaper clippings, magazines, and a ceramic cup documenting the life and work of artist Fritz Scholder.
Arrangement
This collection consists of four boxes.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Kathy Krzys transferred these materials from Special Collections to the Labriola Center in 2015 (Accession #2016-04971).
Genre / Form
Occupation
- Title
- Fritz Scholder Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Laura Medina
- Date
- 2017-09-11
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository details
Part of the Labriola National American Indian Data Center Repository