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Indian with Feather

Brooklyn Museum

71.134.2

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&rsquo;s tightly wrapped blanket and his turned pose seem to reject empathy from the viewer.<br />

  • Credit Line

    Bristol-Myers Fund

  • Signed

    Signed lower center in graphite: "Scholder"

  • Type of Item feather
  • Material lithograph on paper
  • Measurements length 30.25 in, width 22.0 in (overall)
  • Creator Fritz Scholder
  • Creation Date between 1970 and 1971
  • Classification Print

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