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Carol Hoorn Fraser (1930-1991)

“First they tell you it isn’t true; then they tell you it’s true but unimportant; then they say it’s important and they’ve known it all along.”
(American inventor, quoted from memory.)

“The night wind blows upon the dreamer, bent
Over words that are life’s voluble utterance.”
(Wallace Stevens)

This magnificent and still too little known artist did over three hundred oils, as many watercolours, and numerous drawings. These thirty-seven images, arranged more or less chronologically, give an idea of her range, her intellectual freedom, and her unflagging inventiveness. Their positions elsewhere in the site are indicated. The titles in square brackets were provided by J.F. for works left untitled. The site contains about a hundred and thirty images of her work.

	Moonlight Bathers, 1959, oil—Intellectual (MFA)
	Sunflower Hedge, 1960, oil—Intellectual (MFA)
	The Sun Setting, 1963, oil—Departure
	Suzanne on the Bed, 1963, ink—Artist (Drawing)
	Tidal Rocks, 1963, ink—Artist (Drawing)
	The Widow, 1964, oil—Artist (Image-Making)
	Wild Surf, 1965, ink—Artist (Drawing)
	Garden Diagram, 1965, oil—Places (Seillons)
	Moonlight from the Balcony in Seillons, 1966-86, pencil—Places (Seillons)
	Field in Provence, 1966-82, pencil—Places (Seillons)
	Green Fire, 1967-69, oil—Intellectual (Interlude VI)
	Kissing the Moon, 1968-69, oil—Artist (Image-Making)
	Grandparents I, 1968-69—Artist (Art)
	Moon Alley, 1969, oil—Places (Seillons), Places (Interlude II)
	Major Surgery, 1969-77, oil—Artist (Art); Character (Body)
	Ambivalence, 1970-71, oil—Artist (Art)
	Head Wound, 1970, oil—Artist (Art); Character (Driving)
	Inland, 1970, oil—Artist (Drawing); Artworld (1977)
	Couple II, 1973-76, oil—Artist (Drawing); People (Other)
	Solipsist, 1974, oil—Artist (Art)
	Beach Girl, 1974, pencil—Artworld (Reputation)
	Complacency, 1976, pencil—Artworld (1977)
	Hybrid Study, 1976-77, pencil—Artworld (Ideologies)
	Squash Blossoms, 1976-77, pencil—Artist (Drawing); Artworld (1977)
	Revelation, 1977, pencil—Artist (Art)
	Six Women, 1979, pencil—Artist (Image-Making)
	Triptych of the Knot, 1980, oil—Intellectual (Interlude V)
	Playground of Escape, 1982, oil—Pleasures (Interlude VI)
	Golden Opportunity, 1981-83, oil—Places (Tepoztlán)
	Neighbourhood with Starlings , 1982, w.c.—not elsewhere
	Departure of Summer, 1987, w.c.—Character (Interlude VII)
	Night Flowers, 1989, w.c. —not elsewhere
	[And All the Trumpets Sounded], 1990, w.c.—Departure
	[The Wall], 1990, oil, unfinished—People (Interlude VIII)
	[Final Soliloquy], 1989, pencil—Artist (Drawing); Artist (Art); People (Interlude VIII)
	[Who Are Those People and How Did They Get There?] 1990, oil—People (Interlude VIII)
	Self-Portrait, 1960, oil—Character (Resistance)
	In the garden, 1968, (photo JF)—Character (Being an Artist)
	In the studio, 1968, working on “lost” war painting, (photo JF)—not elsewhere

Thanks to Will Fraser and Nicholas Poburko for urging the desirability of such a selection.