Samuel Wilson Frazer papers
name: label: Creator
content: Frazer, Samuel Wilson, 1866-1954
label: Names
content: Scott Carbee School of Art -- Faculty
topic: label: Topic
content: Airbrush art -- Technique
label: Topic
content: Painting, American
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent 1991 by Gertrude Frazer, daughter of Samuel Frazer. She subsequently donated the material in March 1993.
creator: label: Creator
content: Frazer, Samuel Wilson, 1866-1954
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter, air brush artist, photographer; Boston, Mass. Attended the Art Students League in N.Y. and studied under John Twachtman, J. Carroll Beckwith and Willard Metcalf. He was a charter member of the Brooklyn Pen and Pencil Club, and a member of the Boston Art Club. He was a pioneer in the field of air-brush art and published a book on the subject in 1915. He became an instructor at the Scott Carbee School of Art in Boston in 1943.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.1 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: [circa 1880-1980]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.frazsamu
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical information; correspondence; manuscript and notes for Frazer's book on air-brush techniques, Treatise on the Air Brush (1915); inventory of work; photographs of Frazer and of his work; orders for portraits; financial records, ca. 1933-ca. 1955; exhibition notices; brochures for the Scott Carbee School of Art, Boston; a work of art; and miscellaneous printed material.