ABSTRACT
John Arthur Fraser (1838-1898)
Kathryn L. Kollar
1981
John Arthur Fraser worked as an artist, teacher,
illustrator and tinter of portrait photographs in Montreal, Toronto, and New York during
the second half of the nineteenth century. His career covers that period in Canadian art
when painters first sought to express national sentiments in their work and chose
landscapes as the primary means of this expression. Fraser, along with many of his
contemporaries, traveled the length and breadth of this country in search of those images
which embodied the grandeur and wealth of Canada.
This monographic study is a biography of the artist,
generally arranged in a chronological order, which examines the main periods of Fraser's
versatile and varied career; within the text are analyses of major watercolours, oil
paintings and illustrations. Also included are a chronology of events and a list of the
works, most of them now lost, produced by the artist over a period of some forty years.
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