Dartmouth Portrait #17
Fritz Scholder, Luiseño / American, 1937 - 2005
Luiseño (Luiseno)
California culture
1973
Oil on canvas, acrylic background
Overall: 80 × 68 in. (203.2 × 172.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Fund
P.974.11
Geography
Place Made: Sacramento, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Native American
Painting
Native American: California Culture
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right: Scholder
Label
Fritz Scholder’s 1973 recasting of a modern Dartmouth Indian, with no resemblance to the demeaning mascot beloved by some alumni, endows this renewed Indian with spiritual and cultural dignity, honor, and prestige.
From the 2019 exhibition Portrait of the Artist as an Indian / Portrait of the Indian as an Artist, guest curated by Rayna Green
Course History
NAS 8, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Vera Palmer, Fall 2012
NAS 8, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Vera Palmer, Spring 2012
NAS 8, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Vera Palmer, Spring 2013
NAS 8, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Vera Palmer, Spring 2013
NAS 30.1, ARTH 17, Modern Native American Art History, Joyce Szabo, Summer 2013
WRIT 5, Expository Writing, William Craig, Winter 2014
NAS 16, 20th Century Native American History, Angela Parker, Winter 2014
NAS 8, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Vera Palmer, Fall 2014
NAS 8, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Vera Palmer, Fall 2014
Exhibition History
Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-December 17, 2000.
Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 25, 1995-January 2, 1996.
Images of the West: Selections from the Permanent Collection, MALS 190, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 15-August 28, 1994.
In Residence: Contemporary Art at Dartmouth, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 18-July 6, 2014.
Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8, 2011-March 12, 2012.
Portrait of the Artist as an Indian / Portrait of the Indian as an Artist, Harteveldt Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26-August 20, 2019.
The Soaring Spirit: Contemporary Native American Art, The Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey, September 13-November 13, 1987.
Publication History
Upper Valley Magazine Preview of the Arts, Upper Valley Magazine, September/October 1995, Volume 9, No. 5, West Lebanon: Van Etten, Inc., p. 58
Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.67, no.42.
George P. Horse Capture, Sr., Joe D. Horse Capture, Joseph M. Sanchez, et al., Native American Art at Dartmouth: Hightlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, ill. p. 6 and p. 149, no. 52.
Michael R. Taylor and Gerald Auten, In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2013, ill. p. 60 , no. 45
Provenance
Cordier and Ekstrom Inc., New York; sold to present collection, 1974.
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