Background

Fraser, Laura Gardin was born on September 14, 1889 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of John Emiel and Alice (Tilton) Gardin.

Education

Preparatory education Horace Mann School, New New York Student Art Students’ League, 1907-1910.

Career

Awarded Helen Foster Barnett prize National Academy of Design, 1916, Julia A. Shaw member prize, 1919, Saltus gold medal, 1924, 27. Saltus medal, American Numismatic Society, 1926. Agar prize National Association Women Painters & Sculptors, 1929.

Watrous gold medal National Academy of Design, 1931.

Winner of competition Lindbergh Congressional medal, George Washington Bicentennial medal, General George C. Marshall Congressional medal. Won invited competition for double equestrian statute Stonewall Jackson and General Robert East. Lee erected in Wyman Park, Baltimore, 1948.

Designed United States Army and Navy chaplains medal. Irish Setter Club of America medal.

Morgan Horse Club medal.

Alabama fifty cent piece. Grant Memorial fifty cent piece. General MacArthur one peso and fifty centavos for Philippine government.

Collaborated with J. East. Fraser on Oregon Trail fifty cent piece.

Foreign National Geography Society, Richard East. Byrd medal, Gilbert Grosvenor medal, new Hubbard medal. Foreign United States Military Academy, Sesqui-Centennial medal, Sylvanus Thayer medal.

Foreign American Geography Society, South.F.B. Morse medal. American Bar Association medal.

Wolcott medal for Smithsonian Institute.

Massachusetts Tercentenary medal. National Institute Social Sciences medal. National Sculpture Society medal of honor.

Oklahoma Semi-Centennial medal.

Benjamin Franklin Congressional medal. American Numismatic Society centennial medal.

Made heroic size group of Flying Pegasus with floating figure for Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina. Other sculptural works include reclining clk in front of Elks Memorial Building, Chicago, life size portrait racing sire Fair Play for Mr.

J. East. Widener, Lexington, Kentucky, two polo ponies for National Polo Association, 20 foot relief panel of 250 horses and riders comprising Oklahoma Run, and three large panels depicting history United States in library United States Military Academy, heroic relief portrait of Benjamin Franklin in new building Franklin Life Insurance Company.

Achievements

• Laura Gardin Fraser has been listed as a noteworthy sculptor. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served captain Ambulance Service Motor Corps, World War I. Associate National Academy of Design, 1924, National Academy of Design, 1931. Club: Cosmopolitan (New York City).

Connections

Married James Earle Fraser, November 27, 1913.

Father:

John Emiel Gardin

Mother:

Alice (Tilton) Gardin

Spouse:

James Earle Fraser