Mixed Media Collage titled “Future Marks” by Fritz Scholder [SOLD]

This mixed media collage by influential Luiseño artist Fritz Scholder is titled “Future Marks”.  The piece dates to 1993 and was featured in the book “Remnants of Memory”.  A copy of the book is included with purchase of the collage.  Scholder is best known for his paintings and lithographs, but he also worked in sculpture, photography, monotype printing, and other media.  “Future Marks” is the first Scholder collage to make its way to our gallery, and we are pleased to be able to spend some time with it. 

The foundation of the collage is a rectangular piece of paper in bold black.   A smaller white paper has been glued to the right side.  On the left side, a figure appears. Pink, white, and purple pastels define its muscular, mysterious form. A cloud of orange hovers over one of its legs, eventually crossing up and over the top half of the white paper.  A fragmented tan line crosses the image vertically near its left edge. A clear plastic sheet, decorated with scotch tape and handwritten text reading “Cover Red”, is attached to the left side of the piece using black tape.  These disparate elements combine to form a deep, compelling image, which is what we expect from the great Fritz Scholder.

The collage is signed Scholder in pencil in upper right.  It was framed by Wilkinson & Company of Santa Fe, New Mexico, using high-quality archival materials and conservation grade UV protective glass.

Fritz Scholder (1937-2005) was by birth one-quarter Luiseño Indian, a California Mission Tribe. He was born in Minnesota, spent two decades in the Dakotas, and lived in Galisteo, NM and Scottsdale, AZ.  Fritz Scholder came to Santa Fe in 1964 to teach advanced painting and art history at the new Institute of American Indian Arts, a school established by the United States Department of the Interior. He obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Arizona in 1964 before moving to Santa Fe and joining IAIA.  Fritz Scholder enjoyed a long and successful career and is regarded today as one of the most innovative and influential Native artists.

Condition: excellent condition

Provenance: this Mixed Media Collage titled "Future Marks" by Fritz Scholder is from a private Santa Fe collection

Reference: Fritz Scholder “Remnants of Memory“, Nazraeli Press, Munich, Germany, 1993

Relative Links: Luiseño Indian, Santa Fe, paintings, lithographs, Albuquerque, Fritz Scholder, Luiseño Indian Painter