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A Distant Rival by Luke Frazier (bio below)
Approx. Size 21 x 28 Inch Image on Paper
Only 950 Edition Hand Signed and Numbered by the Artist
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LUKE FRAZIER
Luke Frazier grew up hunting and
fishing in the mountains of northern Utah. These early forays into nature
instilled a kinship with the wildlife, and a passion for the outdoors. As a
child he spent hours scribbling, sketching and sculpting wildlife. Later, his
formal art training occurred at Utah State University, where he earned a
Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in painting and a Masters of Fine Arts degree in
illustration.
Every year, Frazier travels through Alaska, Canada, and the
American West painting and photographing animals in their environment. His love
of fly fishing and hunting is apparent in his work. Influenced by the art of
Winslow Homer, Edgar Payne, Bruno Liljefors, Wilhelm Kuhnert, Carl Rungius, and
Bob Kuhn, Frazier appreciates the strength of drawing, color and emotion put
into their art work.
Frazier’s work has often been compared to that of
Carl Rungius and Bob Kuhn, noted masters of wildlife art. In a recent article in
Wildlife Art, Bill Kerr, cofounder of the National Museum of Wildlife Art and a
personal collector of Frazier’s work, stated, “What impresses me about Luke
Frazier is his potential, he’s talented, he’s dedicated, his work reminds me of
some kind of an exotic combination of Kuhn’s modernism and the classic palette
of the academicians.” John Geraghty, a Frazier collector and board member of the
National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, said, “It’s exciting when young
artists emerge who know their material yet do not feel threatened by taking
suggestions from the masters. You can tell by the way they work how serious they
are, and you can see the continuing improvement in Luke’s work, especially in
his design. He is influenced by other greats like Kuhn and Carl Rungius, but at
the same time he’s his own man.”
Frazier's work has been included in the
book Leading the West, written by Don Hagerty, in conjunction with Southwest Art
magazine, and published by Northland Press in 1997. The book profiles 100 of the
best living painters and sculptors working today. He has been profiled in Art of
the West, Wildlife Art, Big Sky Journal and Southwest Art. His paintings
frequently appear in Field & Stream, Gray's Sporting Journal, Sporting
Classics and Alaska.
Among the museums where Frazier’s paintings have
been exhibited are the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming; the
Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, California; the National Cowboy and
Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ; the Phoenix Art Museum,
Phoenix, Arizona; the C.M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, Montana; the Montgomery
Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery Alabama; and the Kimball Art Center, Park City,
Utah.
He received the Founders Favorite Award at the Art for the Parks
competition in 2002 and the Wildlife Art Award in 1994, 1996, and 1997, and has
been recognized on the National Parks stamp. His work is represented by Legacy
Galleries, Jackson, Wyoming, and Scottsdale, Arizona; J.N. Bartfield Galleries,
New York; Stephen B. O’Brien Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, and The Gallery
at Midlane, Houston, TX.
In July of two thousand, Frazier was honored to
join 40 other artists at "Wildlife for a New Century," an international
invitational exhibit at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. In February 2004,
Frazier was invited to teach a workshop, “Sporting Art and Big Game hunting” at
the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in conjunction with the “Art
of American Arms Makers” exhibit, which featured work by N.C. Wyeth, Fredrick
Remington, W.R. Leigh, Carl Rungius and Phillip
Goodwin.