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    Dwellings
    Dwellings
    Dwellings
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    Dwellings

    By Carol Hoorn Fraser, John Fraser and Barbara Bickle

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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.

    In Tepoztlán in 1981 she dripped undiluted watercolours onto a sheet of glass, pressed sheets of drawing paper down on it, and worked up the resulting colour patches into images. Back home she began revealing the poetry of houses embedded in nature in the various seasons, with the boundaries between inner and outer often porous. These are indeed Dwellings. The variety of techniques by which she made these thirty watercolours sing are illuminated in a long Afterword by artist Barbara Bickle.

    Her work is represented in numerous public collections, including the Walker Art Center, the Smithsonian Institute, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereBookIt.com
    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9781456624927
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      Dwellings - Carol Hoorn Fraser

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      Contents     

      Preface

      Watercolours by Carol Hoorn Fraser

      Cherry Sun

      Summertime

      Grosbeaks Return

      White House

      Evening Fever

      Fading Light

      Rain

      Tower at Night

      Summer Green

      Colourful Neighbourhood

      October Window I

      Blue Window

      Neighbourhood

      Autumn Blue

      Morning-Glories

      Neighbourhood with Starlings

      Forget-Me-Not

      City Dusk

      In the Gloamin’

      Spring Structures

      I Never Saw a Purple House

      Chainlink Neighbourhood

      Untitled

      Suburban Windows

      Moon Trellis

      Garden Event

      Autumn Grove

      Like a House a-Fire

      Somewhere In The Country

      Photograph of Carol Hoorn Fraser

      Afterword by Barbara Bickle

      Biographical

      Preface

      Carol Hoorn Fraser (1930 – 1991), Wisconsin-born and Minnesota-educated, lived and made art in Nova Scotia for thirty years, with stays in Provence and Mexico. She worked with equal commitment in oils, graphics, and watercolours, but the watercolours that she produced in her last decade hold a special place in her oeuvre.

      She suffered from allergies, and the five meticulously executed oils that she created in Tepoztlán in the winter of 1980-81 were increasingly stressful for her. What she did then, for the first time, was take a large sheet of glass, drip concentrated colours onto it, press sheets of drawing paper down onto them, and work the results up into images. She continued the process back home, with increasing inventiveness, as described in the

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