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Donald Hamilton Fraser is a widely known and accomplished painter dramatising his subjects with bold colours and a confident brush and his work employs a language of visual metaphor in which abstract and descriptive elements combine to express a heightened experience of landscape and still life.
His emphasis upon colour and surface texture reflects the traditional affinity between Scottish and French painting. His own early contacts with the post-war Ecole de Paris confirmed this affinity for him, providing perhaps the most significant, formative influence in the development of his work.
Of Scottish descent, Donald Hamilton Fraser was born in 1929 in London. He studied painting at St. Martin's School of Art and in Paris with a French Government Scholarship.
He was visiting tutor at the Royal College of Art for twenty-five years and is now an Honorary Fellow of the RCA.
He is a Royal Academician and has exhibited there since 1975. He is Vice-President of the Artists' General Benevolent Institution.
He is a Commissioner of the Royal Fine Art Commission. Vice-President of the Royal Overseas League.
He has written in various periodicals on painting and on ballet; in 1968 he published a book on Paul Gauguin, "Vision after the Sermon"; in 1989 "Dancers" a book on his ballet paintings was published.
He has held many one-man exhibitions, notably at Paul Rosenberg in New York; Gimpel Fils in London; Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames; Flying Colours, Edinburgh; CCA in London, New York & Japan. He has also participated in numerous mixed exhibitions throughout Europe and North America.
His work is in private and public collections worldwide, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the National Gallery, Melbourne and the Arts Council collection.
Recent Solo Exhibitions
| 2004 | Oakham Galleries, London |
| 2003 | W H Patterson Fine Art, London |
| 2000 | W H Patterson Fine Art, London |
| 1998 | City Gallery, London |
| 1997 | Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames |
| 1996 | A T Kearney Corporation, London |
| 1994-97 | New Academy Gallery, London (two exhibitions) |
| 1993 | Flying Colours Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 1990-92 | Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo (two exhibitions) |
| 1988-97 | Kingfisher Gallery, Edinburgh (three exhibitions) |
| 1987-94 | CCA Gallery, London (six exhibitions) |
| 2007 | Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames |
Public Collections
HM The Queen
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
City Art Gallery, St Louis, Missouri
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut
Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California
Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Telephone / fax number: 01491 576228.
If you are outside the UK dial +44 1491 576228.
The Gallery is open daily from
10.00 to 1.15 and 2.15 to 5.00
Saturday 10.00 to 5.00,
but is closed on Wednesday and Sunday.
You can also visit the Gallery by appointment.
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