{"title":"Fraser, Claud Lovat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClaud Lovat Fraser (1890-1921)\u003c\/strong\u003e was an English artist, designer and author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe was christened Lovat Claud; as a young man he reversed those names for euphony's sake but he was always known as Lovat. Fraser's father (also Claud) was a prominent solicitor, his mother an able amateur artist and musician. Fraser was educated at Windlesham House School and Charterhouse and after leaving school in 1907, aged 17, he commenced legal studies and he entered his father's firm as an Articled Clerk a year later, but he was always more interested in becoming an artist. In 1911, his father released him from his Articles, and he left the firm to pursue a career in art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter a year at the Westminster School of Art, where his tutors included Walter Sickert, he began to create a career for himself. He found an influential friend and supporter in the art critic Haldane MacFall and as an early commission executed illustrations for MacFall's essay on art and aesthetics entitled The Splendid Wayfaring. Through MacFall, he also gained an introduction to the Actor Manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, proprietor of His Majesty's Theatre in Haymarket. Tree in turn, at MacFall's instigation, commissioned him to supply the illustrations for Thoughts and Afterthoughts, his volume of reminiscences and also gave him free run of his private suite in the theatre's dome; Fraser began to get to know theatre people, and they him. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1913, along with Holbrook Jackson and the poet Ralph Hodgson, Lovat Fraser established a small publishing firm called The Sign of the Flying Fame to produce decorative poetry broadsides and chapbooks. Although printed in limited editions and often hand-coloured, they were affordably priced and were intended to make poetry more accessible to the general public.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn October 1914, Fraser enlisted with the Inns of Court Officers' Training Corps, and was quickly commissioned into the 14th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry. After a period of active service in WWI, he was promoted to captain in early 1916 but in mid-February that year, he was invalided home, suffering from shellshock. During this period, he had produced many sketches of the battlefields and of life behind the lines. Several of these sketches were submitted to the Imperial War Museum who purchased six of them in November 1917. Through continuing poor health, he was never again sent abroad. He served as a clerk in the War Office on visual propaganda from October 1916 through to late April 1917, then at the Army Record Office in Hounslow until his discharge in March 1919.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn August 1916, Fraser met the American-born actress Grace Inez Crawford in her theatre dressing room. By Grace's description, he was ‘tall, brown-haired and hazel-eyed, big-boned with a very fine white skin and a beautifully moulded Grecian mouth’. It was love at first sight and they were married in February 1917 and had a daughter, Helen. Grace's career interests contributed to Fraser's increased involvement in theatrical and costume design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter the war, Fraser made designs for Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop and for the Curwen Press. He also executed private commissions for bookplates, stationery and greeting cards. In 1919, he produced the designs for Nigel Playfair's ground-breaking production of As You Like It in Stratford-upon-Avon, then in 1920 for Playfair's highly successful London revival of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring this period, Grace and Lovat Fraser became friendly with Paul Nash. They were introduced by Nash and his wife to Dymchurch in Kent, where the two families holidayed together. On one such holiday there in 1921, Lovat was taken seriously ill. He died in a local nursing home on 18 June, after a surgical operation for obstruction of the bowel the previous day. He had a history of heart trouble following an episode of rheumatic fever as a young man; by the time he left the Army, this was already becoming severe. Neither his gassing in 1915, his smoking habit, nor his weight can have helped.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA memorial exhibition of his work was held in December 1921 at the Leicester Galleries in London. He is buried at St Bartholomew's Church in Buntingford, Hertfordshire, previously known as Layston Church.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis name is also inscribed on Buntingford War Memorial which he designed while living in the town.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"art-deco-designs-32-high-resolution-images","title":"Art Deco Designs - 32 High Resolution Images","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2025 marks a significant Art Deco anniversary - 100 years since its inception! 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