William Jock Frater (1890-1974)

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Street scene.
Signed William Frater.
Oil on board.
Within a period painted oak frame.

Inscribed on reverse William Frater (studio) 899 Heidelberg Rd Darebin.

An artist and stained-glass designer, Frater was born on 31 January 1890 at Ochiltree Castle, Scotland. Frater studied for a year at Linlithgow Academy. Late in 1905 he accepted a three-year apprenticeship in the Glasgow glass studio of Oscar Patterson, who encouraged him to enrol at the School of Art. He won the Haldane Scholarship for drawing in 1906 and remained at the school until 1909.
His ambition to become a painter was quickened by the local milieu, especially the Glasgow school's vigorous brushwork stemming from French Impressionism and the transition to the Glasgow Colourism of J. D. Ferguson and S. J. Peploe. Frater was prevented by his guardian from entering the final painting classes at the school.
Family discord caused him to migrate to Australia, arriving in Melbourne in 1910. After being refused entry to the National Gallery School he returned to Britain and in 1912-13 completed his training at Glasgow in the senior painting classes at the School of Art. In 1914 he returned to Melbourne and married Winifred Dow on 15 May 1915.

Frater's oeuvre developed between 1915 and 1920 towards a simplification of design, an interplay of massed lights and shadows, and sonorous low-keyed colour that reflected his interest in the classical seventeenth century painters in interaction with the analytical tonal theory of Max Meldrum. PriceSOLD DimensionsImage 11 1/4 x 13 3/4 in. (28.7 x 35 cm) Frame 14 1/4 x 16 3/4 in. ( Material Oil Painting on Board Origin Australian Condition Very Good Item code as176a055 Status Sold

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