Vera L. Fraser

Vera Fraser was born in Tacoma, Washington and studied at Annie Wright School, graduating in 1940. She went on to study art and music at Scripps College in Claremont, California. After graduating she moved to New York City, enrolling brielfy at Parsons School of Design then serving a two year apprenticeship with painter Josef Presser. In 1947 she opened her own studio near the Bowery where she lived and worked until her untimely death at 40.

In 1947 Fraser received the Margaret E. Fuller Prize at the Northwest Artists Annual at Seattle Art Museum and also had work in the Whitney Museum Annual that year. During her lifetime she participated in exhibitions across the country from the Pennsylvania Acadmey of Fine Arts and Brooklyn Art Museum on the East Coast to the Zoe Dusanne Gallery in Seattle and State Capitol Museum in Olympia on the West Coast among many other venues. The Tacoma Art Museum held a retrospective exhibition of her work in 1964.