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February 1877 Fraser again became a member of the OSA, and in summer of 1877 went by rail on a sketching trip to New Brunswick. In May 1878 he submitted a large number of oils and watercolors from his sketches to the OSA exhibition, where he received much praise for his work. That year he first
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gave Fraser's Rocky
Mountain watercolours high praise for their uniquely Canadian qualities. In June 1886 Fraser was sent on a sketching trip along the CPR line from Montreal to Vancouver Island and back. He arrived back in Toronto on 19 October 1886 with many watercolours, including sketches and
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painters popular in
Britain at the time. They have strong and original composition and colour, with photographic clarity and detail. His 1878 New Brunswick landscapes are larger and more original both in composition and in use of colour than his earlier landscape. Most of Fraser's paintings were
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In the spring on 1888 Fraser returned to
Britain, visited Scotland and Kent, then worked on his pictures in London until his health failed in the summer of 1889. The Royal Academy of Arts accepted one of his Scottish watercolours for their 1889 exhibition. Fraser and his wife then settled in
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Over time Fraser's art department grew to employ a large staff that coloured photographs, retouched negatives and painted backgrounds. Painted photographs were made from the carte-de-visite size, 3.5 by 2.25 inches (89 by 57 mm), or the cabinet photograph size, 5 by 3.5 inches (127 by
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89 mm). The negatives were projected onto sensitized paper and processed in the normal way. The paper was then pasted onto canvas on a stretcher frame, or onto cardboard, and after the artist had done their work was place in an ornamental guilt frame by Notman's framing department.
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of the CPR. In
November 1884 Van Horne invited Fraser to illustrate a proposed guidebook for the CPR. After some delay, Fraser accepted the commission in October 1885. Van Horne was demanding, and felt free to give Fraser criticism and advice. For example, he said of a sketch of
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to join his wife and daughters, leaving his sons to run the photographic business. He became a member of the Boston Art Club and was one of the founders of the Boston Water Color
Society. He found steady work making illustrations for New York magazines such as
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372:(CPR) was an art connoisseur, and gave commissions to professional artists including Fraser and Lucius Richard O'Brien to make paintings of the Rockies for exhibitions promoting the CPR. In 1883 Fraser made a trip on the newly-completed CPR line to
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larger more complete pictures. By the end of
November he was back in Boston with his family. The CPR helped Fraser with an exhibition of his CPR pictures at the Canadian Club in New York in March 1887, and with a dealer in London in May 1887.
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art editor, Lucius O’Brien, president of the Royal
Canadian Academy of Arts. Fraser was often involved in bitter arguments with other artists. In the summer of 1883 Fraser was employed by a Chicago publisher to make a 2-week trip to northern
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John Arthur had moved to
Montreal by 1860, looking for work as a decorative painter. His father also moved to Montreal and worked as a book agent while writing on politics until his death in 1872. Fraser became a photograph tinter with
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Fraser also exhibited oil paintings of New
Hampshire and Eastern Township landscapes with the Art Association of Montreal, and sold these paintings through dealers. Notman was a charter member and ongoing supporter of the
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to make sketches that illustrated an article that he wrote about his expedition. The Notman and Fraser partnership was wound up in 1883 and in June 1884 Fraser and Sons was launched as a photographic firm in Toronto.
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Fraser's early work as a tinter of small head and shoulders studies for Notman is skillful and sensitive, giving the impression of miniature paintings. One his first known landscapes was the picturesque and romantic
228:. The text by Thomas Davies King said that the artist "has not had more opportunity of following a branch of art in which he would be successful", an allusion to Fraser's work supervising Notman's art department.
325:. In October 1876 the Government of Ontario agreed to give the OSA a grant of $ 1,000 to open the first art school in Ontario at 14 King Street West in Toronto. Fraser was elected to the council of the
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that it "will hardly answer our purpose, the mountain not being sufficiently imposing...". Fraser was willing to accept this advice, and maintained a good relationship with Van Horne.
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Fraser left Notman's firm in Montreal in October 1868 and in November 1868 opened the partnership of Notman and Fraser in Toronto. In Toronto, Fraser employed young painters such as
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to provide high-quality artistic work. In 1876 Notman and Edward Wilson formed the Centennial Photographic Company, which obtained a monopoly on photography at the 1876
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in Philadelphia. Fraser was employed as art supervisor by the company, which had 100 employees working in a large building on the exhibition grounds.
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on commission, but was not satisfied with his work. He engaged Fraser in 1860 as his main artist, with the young
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in 1878, and in September that year became general supervisor of paintings at the school. His pupils included
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Summit Lake near Lenchoile, Bow River, Canadian Pacific Railway
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as his assistant. Fraser was paid a salary of $ 125 per month.
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around 1852, and later he was described as "a pupil of the
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914:, Galerie Alan Klinkhoff, GGKEY:PJUNDQ108XQ
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