Art + Design 
24 October 2021
Art + Design 
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Fritz Scholder 1937–2005

Strawberry Fields #1

1988
acrylic on canvas 30 h × 30 w in (76 × 76 cm)
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $6,875
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This work is one of two paintings that resulted from a commission by the artist for Yoko Ono.
Signed to lower left ‘Fritz Scholder’. Titled, dated and inscribed to verso ‘Strawberry Fields #1- 1988 - Acrylic’. Sold with copy of original letter of provenance signed by the artist and dated June 7, 2001.
provenance: Acquired directly from the artist in 1999 by the present owner

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Fritz Scholder

"Non-Indian Indian" Artist

A member of the La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians, Fritz Scholder (1937-2005) described himself as a “non-Indian Indian.” His post-modern, Pop-inflected depictions of Native Americans and life in the United States are said to have “forever broke[n] the mold of what Indian painting had been,” as the Los Angeles Times reported upon the artist’s death in 2005. Scholder studied in his youth with Wayne Thiebaud, created lithographs with the Tamarind Institute, and would influence a new generation of Native American artists, in large part through his teaching role at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in the 1960s.


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