More arty stuff. The Institute of American Indian Arts Museum in downtown Santa Fe had an exhibition of over 100 paintings, drawings, and sculptures by another of my favorite artists--Fritz Scholder. He was an instructor at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe in the late 1960s where he started painting Indians in a pop art, non-traditional way. He hit the big time in the 1970s and 80s along with a few other "Indian artists" like T.C. Cannon. He quit doing Indians in the 80s moving to mystery women, Egyptian mummies and sphinxes, and skulls and vampires among other things. He returned to do some Indians shortly before his death in Scottsdale in 2005. It was a great show.
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