James Earle Fraser
James Earle Fraser, circa 1920
Date personale
Născut	4 noiembrie 1876[1][2][3][4] Winona⁠(d), Minnesota, SUA
Decedat	11 octombrie 1953 (76 de ani)[1][2][3][4] Westport, Connecticut, Connecticut, SUA
Înmormântat	Willowbrook Cemetery[*][[Willowbrook Cemetery (cemetery in Fairfield County, Connecticut, US)|​]][5]
Căsătorit cu	Laura Gardin Fraser[*][[Laura Gardin Fraser (artistă americană)|​]] (din 1913)[5]
Cetățenie	Statele Unite ale Americii[6]
Ocupație	sculptor medalist
Activitate
Studii	School of the Art Institute of Chicago[*][[School of the Art Institute of Chicago (university and independent school of art and design)|​]], Academia Julian
Opere importante	Albert Gallatin[*][[Albert Gallatin (artwork by James Earle Fraser)|​]], Alexander Hamilton[*][[Alexander Hamilton (bronze statue of Alexander Hamilton by James Earle Fraser)|​]], Equestrian statue of Theodore Roosevelt[*][[Equestrian statue of Theodore Roosevelt (sculpture in New York City by James Earle Fraser)|​]], World War I Victory Medal[*][[World War I Victory Medal (decoration of the United States military)|​]]
Premii	J. Sanford Saltus Medal Award[*][[J. Sanford Saltus Medal Award (lifetime achievement award given by the American Numismatic Society)|​]]
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James Earle Fraser (4 noiembrie 1876 – 11 octombrie 1953) a fost un sculptor și gravor american.

Biografie

James Earle Fraser s-a născut la 4 noiembrie 1876, la Winona, Minnesota, în Statele Unite ale Americii. Tatăl său, Thomas Fraser, era inginer pe șantierul de extindere a căii ferate, în Vestul Statelor Unite.

În 1895, James Earle Fraser a fost admis la École des Beaux-Arts din Paris, unde a lucrat sub îndrumarea sculptorului francez Alexandre Falguière.

Galerie de imagini

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  Benjamin Franklin Memorial, Franklin Institute - Philadelphia, PA
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  Second Division Memorial, The Ellipse, Washington, D.C.
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  Aspiration & Literature - Arts of Peace sculptures. Washington, DC
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  Statuia actorului John Big Tree, de James Earle Fraser (1913), aflată la Berkeley Oak, Berkeley, California
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  Frederick Keep Monument. Rock Creek Cemetery - Washington, D.C.
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  Albert Gallatin monument, United States Treasury, Washington, D.C.
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  General George S. Patton, West Point
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  Contemplation of Justice, United States Supreme Court Building, Washington, DC
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  American Buffalo (2006), avers
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  American Buffalo (2006), revers

Note

Bibliografie

• Armstrong, Craven, et al., 200 Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of Art, NYC, 1976
• Bock, Richard W., Memoirs of an American Artist, ed. Dorathi Bock Pierre, C.C. Publishing Co., Los Angeles CA 1991
• Craven, Wayne, Sculpture in America, Thomas Y. Crowell Co, NY, NY 1968
• Freundlich, A.L.,The Sculpture of James Earle Fraser, Universal Publishers / uPublish.com USA 2001
• Goode, James M. The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1974
• Gurney, George, Sculpture and the Federal Triangle, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1985
• Krakell, Dean, End of the Trail: the Odyssey of a Statue, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma 1973
• Kvaran,, Einar Einarsson, Architectural Sculpture in America, unpublished manuscript
• McSpadden, J. Walker, Famous Sculptors of America, Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc. New York 1924
• National Sculpture Society, Contemporary American Sculpture, The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park, San Francisco, The National Sculpture Society 1929
• Neuhaus, Eugen, E., Art of the Exposition, Paul Elder and Company, San Francisco 1915
• Proske, Beatrice Gilman, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina, 1968
• Reynalds, Donald Martin, Masters of American Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition From the American Renaissance to the Millennium, Abbeville Press, NY 1993
• Taft, Lorado, The History of American Sculpture, MacMillan Co., New York, NY 1925
• Wilkinson, Burke, and David Finn, photographs, Uncommon Clay: The Life and Works of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, San Diego 1985

Legături externe

Wikimedia Commons conține materiale multimedia legate de James Earle Fraser

• en Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture - End of the Trail
• en waupun-wisconsin.com

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