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Carol Hoorn Fraser, MFA, RCA (1930-1991) was a beautiful and unique American-born artist, who received a humanistic art education at the University of Minnesota, took first prizes in shows at the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and lived for thirty years in Nova Scotia with her husband John, with stays in Provence and Mexico.

Like Sinatra, she did it her way, radically rethinking her popular expressionist style in the mid-Sixties and developing a decisive organicist iconography in oils that was all her own. Subsequently, when asthma became a problem, she embarked on a brilliant series of watercolours, returning to oils shortly before her death.

Her earlier drawings, of which she did a lot, were largely landscapes and explorations of bodily postures, nude and clothed. Later on, her drawings, much fewer now, were brilliantly expressive and personal, with women's experiences foregrounded–an unforgettable limp figure on a couch enduring migraine, a head strained upwards to receive a bitter pill (turn it sideways and she's a fury), the mouth as drama of exploratory tongue and teeth, a nude nesting contentedly amid forest birds.

Drawn from her later works, the twenty-seven images in Focussing are a master class in the imaginative possibilities of the medium, given by a virtuoso.

Her work is represented in numerous public collections, including the Walker Art Centre, the Smithsonian Institute, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.

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Publié par	eBookIt.com
Date de parution	02 mai 2016
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9781456624910
Langue	English

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F ocusing

D r a wings b y
C A R OL HOORN FRASER

Edited by
John F r aser and Barbara Bickle
Contents
Drawings by Carol Hoorn Fraser
I
Jeannie #3
Seated Nude
Six Women
II
Moonlight from the Balcony in Seillons
Growth over the Ruins
Village in the Weeds
III
Flowers for Evelyn
Squash Blossoms — Male and Female
Listening to the Heartbeat
IV
Beach Girl
Hybrid Study
Goddess
V
Offering
[Apparition]
VI
Revelation
Migraine
Woman Swallowing a Bitter Pill
VII
Nature Girl
Nesting
VIII
Possession
A Taste of Honey
IX
The Geology of Fear
Balancing Act
X
[Night Houses]
Tidal Rocks at Green Bay I
[Final Soliloquy]
Posthumous titles are in square brackets.
Photograph of Carol Hoorn Fraser
Afterword by John Fraser
Biographical

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Copyright 2015, John Fraser
All rights reserved.

ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-2491-0

Except for reproductions or quotations in critical discussions, no part of this book
may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including
information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from
John Fraser or his estate.

Requests should be addressed to fraserj@eastlink.ca .
Most of the works are included in www.jottings.ca/carol/site.html

A number are in Ian G. Lumsden, ed. Drawings by Carol Fraser 1948 – 1986
(Beaverbrook Art Galler y , 1986)