Sculptor John Frazee, born in Rahway, New Jersey in 1790, lacked the advantage of formal instruction. Many artists working in the decades after the American Revolution came from the ranks of artisans and mechanics. Frazee, being in this group, devised ingenious solutions to the problems that needed to be overcome. Allowing him to progress from carving lettering on gravestones to fashioning busts of the rich and famous.
He became a pioneering sculptor of work that combined realism and neo- (showing 500 of 2015 characters). |
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