Oral history interview with Fritz Scholder
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 7 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 12 digital wav files. Duration is 6 hr., 11 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Scholder, Fritz, 1937-2005
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
label: Names
content: Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000
label: Names
content: Green, Robert B.
label: Names
content: Horowitch, Elaine
label: Names
content: Howe, Oscar, 1915-1983
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content: Lauren, Ralph
label: Names
content: Loloma, Charles, 1921-
label: Names
content: Martin, Agnes, 1912-2004
label: Names
content: O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986
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content: Price, Vincent, 1911-1993
label: Names
content: Thiebaud, Wayne
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- Arizona -- Scottsdale -- Interviews
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content: Sculptors -- Arizona -- Scottsdale -- Interviews
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content: Painters -- Southwest, New -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- Southwest, New -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Art
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Scholder, Fritz, 1937-2005
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Fritz Scholder (1937-2005) was a painter and sculptor from Scottsdale, Ariz.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 100 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1995 March 3-30
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.schold95
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Fritz Scholder conducted 1995 March 3-30, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Scholder discusses his family background and growing up in parallel worlds of Anglo and Indian cultures and the frustration of western versus tribal life; his education in Lawrence, Kan. and the University of Wisconsin; moving to California; his father's job as head of Indian relocation; studying at the Indian art program at the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and the Indian Art Institute in Santa Fe, N.M.; his views on Indians in general and the difficulty of operating in the mainstream art world; his travels and search for adventure in Europe and Egypt; the importance of magic and the occult in his work; myths as a basis for human experience; art as an agent of social change; objections of Indian groups to his work; and his experience as an Indian role model while not part of the movement. He recalls Robert B. Green, Wayne Thiebaud, Ralph Lauren, Vincent Price, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Loloma, Agnes Martin, Elaine Horowitch, and Leonard Baskin.