Luke Frazier
born 1970




Luke Frazier has quickly established himself as one of the West's most promising wildlife artists. Born and raised in the mountains of northern Utah, Frazier spent much of his youth hunting and fishing. His early forays into nature inspired a kinship with wildlife, and a passion for the outdoors.

As a child Frazier spent countless hours sketching and sculpting wildlife, demonstrating not only an apparent interest, but also an instinctive ability.  Later, he received his formal art training at Utah State University, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and a Master of Fine Arts degree in illustration. Influenced by the art of Winslow Homer, Edgar Payne, Bruno Liljefors, Carl Rungius, and Bob Kuhn, Frazier appreciates the strength of drawing, color and emotion put into their pieces.

Frazier's work has been included in the book Leading the West (Northland Press, 1997) written by Don Hagerty, in conjunction with Southwest Art magazine. The book profiles 100 of the best living painters and sculptors working today.  He has been profiled in Art of the West, Wildlife Art, Big Sky Journal and Southwest Art.  His paintings frequently appear in Field & Stream, Gray's Sporting Journal, Sporting Classics and Alaska.

Among the museums where Frazier’s paintings have been exhibited are the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming; the Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles, California; the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; the Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; the C.M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, Montana; the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery Alabama; and the Kimball Art Center, Park City, Utah.

In a recent article in Wildlife Art, Bill Kerr, cofounder of the National Museum of Wildlife Art and a personal collector of Frazier’s work, stated, “What impresses me about Luke Frazier is his potential, he’s talented, he’s dedicated, his work reminds me of some kind of an exotic combination of Kuhn’s modernism and the classic palette of the academicians.”

In July of two thousand, Frazier was honored to join 40 other artists at "Wildlife for a New Century," an international invitational exhibit at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. Most recently, Frazier has been invited to the prestigious Prix de West invitational, at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Luke is humbled and honored to exhibit with the most accomplished artists alive.

Frazier and his wife Angie have four children and currently live in Logan, Utah.


 
     
 
   
 
 
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