02 Marine Paintings - Donald Hamilton Fraser, With Footnotes, #259

Donald Hamilton Fraser R.A. (British, 1929-2009)

Study for Seascape, Sailing Dinghy 

Oil on paper

21.5 x 26.5cm (8 7/16 x 10 7/16in)

Private collection

Dinghy sailing is the activity of sailing small boats. There has always been a need for small tender boats for transporting goods and personnel to and from anchored sailing ships. Together with other smaller work craft such as fishing and light cargo, small inshore craft have always been in evidence. Charles II of England had a private sailing boat presented to him[2] when he returned from exile to England in the 17th century, and he sailed for recreation and competition. More on Dinghy sailing

Donald Hamilton Fraser was born in 1929 in London. He studied at St Martin’s School of Art in London from 1949–1952. He was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Art in 1970, and became an Honorary Fellow in 1984.

Donald’s first solo exhibition was in 1953, and that same year he received a French government scholarship to live and work in Paris. For a time upon his return to England, Donald supplemented his artist’s income by writing for Arts Review. From 1958–1983 he taught at the Royal College of Art, and tutoring future luminaries of the art world. Throughout his career Donald contributed widely to artistic debate, writing as both critic and author. In 1983 he designed 4 commemorative stamps, celebrating 14th March, the Commonwealth Day. He was elected a full member of the Royal Academy in 1985.

Famed for his abstract landscapes, Donald’s richly colourful works quickly established him as one of the most distinctive Modernist painters of his generation. Energy and vitality infuse his work, in which a dramatic use of colour creates an air of the unreal, while marks of his palette-knife technique lend rich texture to the painting surface. More on Donald Hamilton Fraser

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