Gardens of Delight and Power

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.

Gardens of Delight and Power shows her at the top of her game, equally inventive and colour-rich in both mediums, with Mexico, which she visited six times, a strong presence. The gardens range from a great moon-glowing avenue of cypresses in Provence, to the interior of a car magically filled with green forms together with a reclining nude in the glove compartment, to a sheer uncontrolled burst of Mexican night blossoms. These twenty-one images are a joyous celebration of energy and order, with a few darker notes to remind us of their preciousness.

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

• Artists' Books
• Artists
• Art

Informations

• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 27 avril 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781456624903
• Langue: English

Extrait

Gardens of Delight and Power
 
 
Images by
CAROL HOORN FRASER
 
 
Edited by
John Fraser and Barbara Bickle

 
 
 
Published in eBook format by eBookit.com
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Copyright 2015, John Fraser
All rights reserved.
 
ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-2490-3
 
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.
 
Most of the visual works here were included in www.jottings.ca/carol/site.html ,
posted in 2002. The watercolours were reproduced on artcards
published by Thistle Dance Publishing (1998 – 2012).
 
 
Cover design: John Fraser and Barbara Bickle.
Cover image: Night Garden with Full Moon, 1985, watercolour.
 
 
Permission requests or communications about the contents should be addressed to
[e-mail] or [e-mail]
 
 
Gardens of Delight and Power is for Joyce and Rob Stevenson.
Contents
Images by Carol Hoorn Fraser
I
New Planting
Daffodils
Nocturne
II
Playground of Escape
And all the Trumpets Sounded
III
Inland I
IV
Window Plants
Little Picture I
Third World Night
V
Garden Diagram
Moon Alley
VI
Fire in the Garden
VII
Golden Opportunity
Journey South
Network
VIII
Dawn
The Garden
Night Garden with Full Moon
IX
Who Are Those People?
X
Switch
Photograph of Carol Hoorn Fraser
Afterword by John Fraser
Biographical