Bernard Frazier Will Speak to Art Association
If this afternoon follows the record of the previous Sundays during the current art display of the Nebraska Art association, Mrs. Vance Traphagen, todays' hostess, has some busy hours ahead. The week day attendance has been most satisfactory, but the number of visitors at the gallery on Sunday has outranked any recent years. Casual checkup of the cars about Morrill hall, where the show is on display, proves that many of the visitors are from points within motoring distance of Lincoln. Fine Sundays have made a drive the pleasant pastime of an afternoon, and many of the roads have led to Morrill hall, where the showing is open from 2 to 5 p.m.
The special event of this Sunday is Bernard Frazier, who comes from Lawrence, Kas., to speak on the sculptor at his work, demonstrating some of the processes from clay to a completed figure.Mr. Frazier, now working on a huge block of cherry wood as a part of his creative effort under a grant of the Carnegie foundation, has a half dozen pieces in the prsent display of the art association. "Supplication," which he considers his best work, and was made during a week of constant dust storms in 1936, will probably be repeated as an improved and enlarged sculpture. Mr. Frazier considers "Mare Colt" his most successful exhibition piece -- perhaps because she was new the morning he modeled her, the pasture by the windmill was a proper background, and she probed horses began as true descendants of their wild ancestors and not as "pretamed wobbly dependents on man." Not becuase her half mustang blood showed in the three times she kicked the sculptor before he knew his place.
"The Hawk" Mr. Frazier places as the best ceramic from his studio; "White Stallions" is an attempt to meet interior decorating problems, because of their design for varied arrangements and "Peace," in which the sculptor gave special attention to the effect of horizontal lighting and the artificial light of an exposition ground at night, are included in the local showing. "Rebekah" completes the group. this little ceramic sculpture has been well received in several exhibitions -- "Rebekah" attended the National Ceramics exhibit in Syracuse and has been invited to a selected show sponsored by the Philadelphia Art alliance. It is of local clay (Kansas, where Mr. Frazier was born, reared, and now labors) and home made glaze.
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The Nebraska State Journal, March 26, 1939, pp. 1C, 2C