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Fritz Scholder
| Internationally
recognized, Fritz Scholder is the recipient of numerous awards in
the Arts including the American Academy of Arts & letters, the
Rockefeller Foundation, the International Prize in Lithography, the
John Hay Whitney Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Exhibitions at
the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Grand
Palais, in Paris, the National Museum of Art in Tokyo, Japan and the
Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco are only a few stops
in this extensive list of exhibitions. He is collected throughout
the world, the subject of three PBS documentaries, honoured by several
Universities with Honorary Doctorates and author and subject of numerous
books. Scholder’s Vampires & Fallen Angels, his Millennium
series, the Chapel for the end of the Century, and Icons and Apparitions
are exhibitions he has shared with the Valley in 1998. Icons, over framed, are still important in this cybernetic age. Unmarked maps with amulets may help the lost. As men drink and sleep, animals run toward the flames. Portraits of healers and survivors, along with devils and martyrs, may help us understand. According to the Church, end time means the end of evil. Did the talking snake know? |
 Portrait With Pipe, 1995 acrylic on canvas, 80" x 68" click to enlarge |