2013 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 22
22
Fritz Scholder (1937 – 2005)
Indian at Gallup Bus Depot (1969)
oil on canvas
40 × 30 inches
signed lower left
Verso:
203 Fine Art, Taos, New Mexico
Indian at Gallup Bus Depot was part of a breakthrough series of works, painted in 1969-70, which featured Scholder’s interpretation of Native Americans who straddled both their world and that of the contemporary cowboy.
PROVENANCE:
Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Scottsdale
Russell Wade, Indian Wells (acquired in 1970)
Present owner, by descent