Indian with Feather Item Number: 71.134.2 from the Brooklyn Museum
Credit Line
Bristol-Myers Fund
Label
What is Native American art and who is a Native American artist? The artist Fritz Scholder referred to himself as a non-Indian Indian, someone who never felt the pull of two different cultures. With this lithograph series he challenges popular stereotypical depictions of Indians as stoic, noble, pure, and the embodiment of wisdom. Instead, he offers an amorphous human form, showing only a scruffy face with an open mouth, though the hint of a warrior breastplate, the wrapped braids, and the sharply angled feather suggest a Native American identity. The figure’s tightly wrapped blanket and his turned pose seem to reject empathy from the viewer.
Signed
Signed lower center in graphite: "Scholder"
Item History
- Made by Fritz Scholder between 1970 and 1971
What
- Name
- Indian with Feather
- Identification Number
- 71.134.2
- Type of Item
- feather
- Material
- lithograph on paper
- Overall
- length 30.25 in, width 22.0 in
Who
- Creator
- Fritz Scholder
Where
- Holding Institution
- Brooklyn Museum
When
- Creation Date
- between 1970 and 1971
Other
- Classification