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Indian Land #4

Artist (Luiseño, 1937 - 2005)
Date1980
MediumAcrylic on canvas
Dimensions80 × 68 in. (203.2 × 172.7 cm)
Framed: 82 3/8 × 70 3/8 × 2 1/4 in.
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2018.1
Signedu.l.: Scholder
Accession number 2018.1
On View
Not on view
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ProvenanceEstate of the Artist; (LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM); purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2018
Label TextPart of the artist's Indian Land series, an abstracted figure on horseback faces an apocalyptic sky. Fritz Scholder, who was Luiseño, expressed ongoing tensions among Native peoples regarding stolen land in the Americas. Speaking about the series, Scholder once noted that, “Most minorities have a homeland somewhere, a place that’s theirs. The Indian has a homeland that is possessed by another, dominant culture. This has, psychologically, very strange ramifications.”

Esta obra, parte de la serie Territorio indio, presenta una figura abstracta a caballo frente a un cielo apocalíptico. Fritz Scholder, que era luiseño, expresó las constantes tensiones que existen entre los pueblos indígenas respecto de los territorios que les fueron arrebatados en el continente americano. Hablando de esta serie, Scholder remarcó que: “La mayoría de las minorías tienen una tierra natal en alguna parte, un lugar que les pertenece. Un indígena tiene una tierra natal que es poseída por un otro, por la cultura dominante. Eso tiene, psicológicamente, ramificaciones muy extrañas”.
Inscribedverso, u.l., in black marker: Indian Land #3 - 1980
Photography by Edward C. Robison III.
Fritz Scholder
1992
Photography by Edward C. Robison III
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
1992
Photography by Edward C. Robison III.
Fritz Eichenberg
1934
Photography by Edward C. Robison III.
Fritz Eichenberg
ca. 1940
Arrangement 4
Jimmy Baker
2013
Photography by Dwight Primiano
Kenneth Noland
1959
Photography by Edward C. Robison III.
Kerry James Marshall
1995
Photography by Edward C. Robison III.
Gene Davis
1964
Photography by Edward C. Robison III.
Alvin Loving
1970
Photography by Edward C. Robison III.
Roy Lichtenstein
1972