Background
Fraser was born in Winona, Minnesota. His father, Thomas Fraser, was an engineer who worked for railroad companies as they expanded across the American W.
Fraser was born in Winona, Minnesota. His father, Thomas Fraser, was an engineer who worked for railroad companies as they expanded across the American W.
Student in public schools, Minneapolis, The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, Ecole des Beaux Arts and Colorossi and Academie Julian, Paris.
Instructor Art Students’ League New York, 1906, also director. Former assistant to Augustus St. Gaudens. Principal works include bust of Theodore Roosevelt, Senate Chamber, 4 pediments Commerce Building, pediment Constitution Avenue side and 2 heroic figures for front Archives Building, 2 heroic figures before Supreme Court Building, Flaming Sword, 2d Division Memorial, Albert Gallatin statue, north portico Treasury Building, two heroic equestrian groups for bridgehead Lincoln Memorial Circle, Alexander Hamilton, Treasury Building, John Ericsson Monument, Journey Through Life, Rock Creek Cemetery (all in Washington).
Buffalo nickel; monuments to Bishop Potter, Cathedral St. John the Divine, New York, to John Hay, Cleveland, Thomas Edison, Edison Institute, Dearborn, Michigan, Mayo Brothers, Rochester, Minnesota, Harvey Firestone, Akron, O., Franklin, Springfield, Illinois. Equestrian relief portrait of children of Harry Payne Whitney. Fountain group for E. H. Harriman, Arden, New York.
Portrait relief of Morris K. Jesup, American Museum Natural History. Statues: End of the Trail, Panama P.I. Exposition, Canadian Officer, Winnipeg, Victory, Bank of Montreal, Canada, Primitive Inventor of Water Power, figure in front of City Hall, Niagara Falls. Thomas Jefferson and Lewis and Clark, Missouri State Capital.
2 groups Discoverers and Pioneers, on Memorial Bridge, Chicago. Portrait bust, Elihu Root. Portrait relief, Doctor Wm.
M. Polk; portrait bust Augustus Saint Gaudens, Lincoln Statue, Jersey City. For New York State, Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, figures of Boone, Audubon, Lewis and Clark, and equestrian group of Theodore Roosevelt connected with Natural History Museum, New York City. Figure of Franklin for Franklin Institute, Philadelphia.
Clubs: Century Association, Architectural League, National Arts.
Married Laura Gardin, November 27, 1913.