British
Painter, book illustrator and theatrical designer; commercial artist and draughtsman in reed pen and watercolours of figures and landscapes. He spent six months at Westminster School of Art under Sickert in 1911. In 1912 he founded At the Sign of the Flying Fame with Ralph Hodgson and Holbrook Jason and he also emt Edward Gordon Craig who became a lifelong friend. Many of his illustrations and book jackets were produced for the Poetry Bookshop and after 1917 he turned mroe to theatrical designs for Craig's As you Like It in 1919, and Playfair's The Beggar's Opera in 1920. Retrospective exhbitions of his work include those at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford in 1968, and at the V & A in 1969, and he is represented in public collections including the Tate Gallery. His work was characterised by clarity and economy, its use of tonal contrast and silhouette and its expressive, conceptual colour.

LIT:
Claude Lovat Fraser, John Drinkwater and Albert Rutherston, Heinemann, London, 1923
Claude Lovat Fraser, exhbition catalogue, V & A, 1969
Exhibition Catalogue, Rosebach Foundation Museum, Philadelphia, 1971-2