藝術家James Earle FRASER (1876-1953) 生平簡歷

出生地: Winona, MN

死亡地点: Westport, CT

地址: Westport, CT

职业: Sculptor, medalist

教育: AIC with R. Bock, 1894; …cole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, with Falguière; Académie Julian, Académie Colarossi, Paris.

展出: Paris Salon, 1898, 1899; Paris AAA, 1898 (prize); Edison Comp., 1906 (medal); PAFA, 1910-11, 1915, 1921, 1929; Armory Show, 1913; Pan-Pacific Expo, San Francisco, 1915 (gold, sculpture; gold, medals); AIC, 1916; Vallejo, CA, 1929 (prizes); NAC, 1929 (prize).

会员: Cornish (NH) Colony; NIAL; NAC; ANA, 1912; NA, 1917; NSS, 1907; Portrait Painters; Nat. Commission FA; New Soc. Artists; NIAL; NAC.

工作: Medals, MMA; Ghent Mus.; Rome; busts, statues, memorial, Washington, DC; Jersey City; Montreal; Cleveland; Robert Todd Lincoln sarcophagus, Arlington Nat. Cemetery; FA Acad., Buffalo; Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC; City of San Francisco; U.S. Treasury, Washington, DC; Bank of Montreal, Winnipeg; WFNY, 1939; Brookgreen Gardens; Detroit IA; City AM, St. Louis; Cowboy Hall Fame.

评论: As a child, he lived in a railroad box car on the Dakota plains, and grew up to be remembered for his design of the Indian Head 5-cent piece known as the Buffalo Nickel. He was assistant to St. Gaudens from 1898 to 1902, after which he opened his NYC studio. He was one of the founders of the AAPS, which organized the 1913 Armory Show in NYC. He married Laura Gardin, a former student and a sculptor. He was also a medallist, designing the U.S. Victory Medal. Position: teacher, ASL, 1906-11.

来源: WW53; WW47; P & H Samuels, 177; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 344; Community of Artists, 31; Falk, Exh. Record Series; add'l info. courtesy D. Wayne Johnson, Litchfield, CT

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