Having spent his childhood in the West, James Earle Fraser became one of the more famous American sculptors of cowboys, Indians, and horses. He also designed the Buffalo Nickel, which "has been... Read full biography
Having spent his childhood in the West, James Earle Fraser became one of the more famous American sculptors of cowboys, Indians, and horses. He also designed the Buffalo Nickel, which "has been called the first uniquely American coin." (Reynolds, 189). From 1920 to 1925, he served on the National... Read full biography
Having spent his childhood in the West, James Earle Fraser became one of the more famous American sculptors of cowboys, Indians, and horses. He also designed the Buffalo Nickel, which "has been called the first uniquely American coin." (Reynolds, 189). From 1920 to 1925, he served on the National Arts Commission, and played a key role in promoting American subject matter in public art. In 1919, he received the Saltus Medal*, the most prestigious medallic art award. He attended public school in... Read full biography
Having spent his childhood in the West, James Earle Fraser became one of the more famous American sculptors of cowboys, Indians, and horses. He also designed the Buffalo Nickel, which "has been called the first uniquely American coin." (Reynolds, 189). From 1920 to 1925, he served on the National Arts Commission, and played a key role in promoting American subject matter in public art. In 1919, he received the Saltus Medal*, the most prestigious medallic art award. He attended public school in Minneapolis, but lived much of the time in a railway car crossing through the Dakotas because his father was in charge of laying railroad track across the western plains. At age 18, with obvious art talent, he began studies at the Art Institute of... Read full biography
Having spent his childhood in the West, James Earle Fraser became one of the more famous American sculptors of cowboys, Indians, and horses. He also designed the Buffalo Nickel, which "has been called the first uniquely American coin." (Reynolds, 189). From 1920 to 1925, he served on the National Arts Commission, and played a key role in promoting American subject matter in public art. In 1919, he received the Saltus Medal*, the most prestigious medallic art award. He attended public school in Minneapolis, but lived much of the time in a railway car crossing through the Dakotas because his father was in charge of laying railroad track across the western plains. At age 18, with obvious art talent, he began studies at the Art Institute of Chicago* and there studied sculpture with Richard Bock. By age 20, he was a student in Paris at the Ecole des Beau... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (65)
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The American West Reimagined: Gems from the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction
2021
Peterson, Dr. Larry Len
528 pages (color)
Bronze Inside and Out: A Biographical Memoir of Bob Scriver
2007
Scriver, Mary Strachan
368 pages
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier, 1890-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Barter, Judith & Kelly, Sarah
184 pages (color)
Cornish Art of the Past Century: Art for Art's Sake
2001
Gilbert-Smith, Alma
24 pages (color)
Gregory Perillo and the Masters of American Western Art
2000
Brodell, James; Peter Occhiogrosso; Louis Zona (foreward)
200 pages (color)
A Place of Beauty: The Artists and Gardens of the Cornish Colony (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Gilbert, Alma; Judith Tankard
24 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
0 pages
The Cornish Colony: One Hundred Year Celebration Exhibit (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Gilbert, Alma; James Atkinson
52 pages
Whitney Gallery of American Art
1997
Boehme, Sarah E
78 pages (color)
Footprints of the Past: Images of Cornish, New Hampshire
1996
Colby, Virginia Reed; James B. Atkinson
526 pages
One Hundred Years of American Medallic Art, 1845-1945: The John E. Marqusee Collection: Herbert F. Johnson Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Luftschein, Susan
98 pages
Masters of American Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition From the American Renaissance to the Millenium
1994
Reynolds, Donald Martin
275 pages (color)
The Red Book Western American Price Index
1993
Southwest Art
126 pages
Treasures From Our West
1992
Curators, Buffalo Bill Center
57 pages (color)
A Nation's Pride Art in the White House
1992
Kloss, William (et al)
375 pages (color)
Art of the Golden West
1990
Axelrod, Alan
418 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990
Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface
430 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
American Western Art
1989
Rockwell Museum
84 pages (color)
Native Americans Five Centuries of Changing Images
1989
Trenton, Patricia/P T Houlihan
304 pages (color)
Frontier America: Art From Buffalo Bill Historical Center
1988
Fees, Paul; Sarah E Boehme
128 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
Sculpture in America (new and revised edition)
1984
Craven, Wayne
782 pages
Treasures of the Old West Thomas Gilcrease Institute
1984
Hassrick, Peter H
127 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
Art of the American West
1983
Murray, Richard N
74 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
The West as Art Western Art in Calfornia Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Trenton, Patricia
197 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
730 pages
The Treasures of Gilcrease (Tulsa OK)
1979
Myers, Fred
106 pages (color)
The Fine Arts in America
1979
Taylor, Joshua C
264 pages
The Lure of the Great West
1978
Getlein, Frank
352 pages (color)
The Bison in Art A Graphic Chronicle of the Ameican Bison (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Barsness, Larry
142 pages (color)
American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources
1977
Ekdahl, Janis
260 pages
The Way West Art of Frontier America
1977
Hassrick, Peter H
240 pages (color)
Adventures in Western Art
1977
Krakel, Dean
377 pages
200 Years of American Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Armstrong, Tom
336 pages (color)
Art in the United States Capitol
1976
Editor for Architect of the Capitol
0 pages (color)
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
Bronzes of the American West
1973
Broder, Patricia Janis; Harold McCracken (Intro)
429 pages (color)
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
Barry Faulkner: Sketches from an Artist's Life
1973
Faulkner, Barry
208 pages (color)
End of the Trail The Odyssey of a Statue
1973
Krakel, Dean
196 pages
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogue of the Collection 1972
1972
Amon Carter Museum
600 pages
Biographical Sketches of American Artists
1972
Earle, Helen L
370 pages
James Earle Fraser, American Sculptor: A Retrospective Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Bush, Martin
128 pages (color)
The Cowboy in Art
1968
Ainsworth, Ed; John Wayne (Foreward)
242 pages (color)
The Story of the Armory Show (Exhibition catalog)
1963
Brown, Milton W
320 pages
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
Painting & Sculpture by 75 Artist Associated with The Art Students League (Exhibition catalog)
1951
Metropolitan Museum of Art
170 pages
American Portraits Catalogue of Portraits in Oil, Miniature, Sculptures
1941
New York Historical Society
367 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
Art and Artists of the Capitol of the United States of America
1927
Fairman, Charles E
0 pages
Impressions of the Art at the Panama Pacific Exposition (Exhibition catalog)
1916
Brinton, Christian
203 pages
Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit