biography
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Fraser, James Earle
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| lived:
| (1876–1953)
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| biography:
| Sculptor, born in Winona, Minnesota, USA. He lived in the Dakota territory, Minneapolis, and Chicago, where he sculpted ‘The End of the Trail’ (1894), a popular image of the American Indian. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris (1895–9), was an assistant of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1898–1902), and settled in New York (1902). He created many public monuments and designed medallions and coins, including the buffalo nickel (1913). |
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