Dwellings

Carol Hoorn Fraser

Description

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.

Sujets

• Art
• Canadian

Informations

• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 19 août 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781456624927
• Langue: English

Extrait

Dwellings
 
 
Watercolours by
CAROL HOORN FRASER
 
 
Edited by
Barbara Bickle and John Fraser
 
 
Published in eBook format by eBookit.com
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Copyright 2015, John Fraser
All rights reserved.
 
ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-2492-7
 
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, or from Barbara Bickle for the Afterword. Requests should
be addressed to fraserj @ eastlink.ca or bbickle @ ns.sympatico.ca
 
Most of the images in Dwellings have appeared as artcards published by
Thistle Dance Publishing (1998 – 2012). A few also appear in
www.jottings.ca/carol/site.html
 
 
 
Cover design: John Fraser and Barbara Bickle.
Cover image: Departure of Summer, 1987, watercolour.
 
 
Communications about the contents should be addressed to
bbickle @ ns.sympatico.ca
or [e-mail]
 
 
 
Dwellings is for Betty Caswell Bickle
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