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fritz scholder
Fritz Scholder: A Renegade Voice in Native American Art Fritz Scholder (1937-2005) wasn’t born into a world of tradition or steeped in the lore of his ancestry. He was, in many ways, an outsider—a European-American raised in Minnesota and California, with only a quarter Luiseno bloodline connecting him to the California Mission tribes. Yet, this very distance became the cornerstone of his revolutionary approach to Native American art,…
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1970
first work
1974
last work
Chronological Journey
The Lifeline
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Chapters — Career Periods
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Colour Band — Movement Drift
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