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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 Fraziers 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 Fraziers work, stated, What impresses me about Luke Frazier is his
potential, hes talented, hes dedicated, his work reminds me of some kind of an exotic combination
of Kuhns 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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