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<h1 align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><font size="5">Hal Frater </font><br />
</b><font size="3">(b. 1909 - 2008)</font></font></h1></td>
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<td height="171"><p align="center"><img src="20thcentury%20images/fraterentertainers.jpg" alt="Hal Frater" name="Frater" width="400" height="310" id="Frater" /></p>
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<p><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Hal Frater<br />
</b><em>Entertainers</em><br />
Oil on Linen <br />
36" x 46" <br />
Exhibition: 1977 National Academy of Design<br />
Very Good Condition </font></p>
<p><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Hal Frater <br />
</b><em>Figure With Hand Raised<br />
</em>December 1959 <br />
Oil on board <br />
27" x 15" <br />
Very Good Condition<br />
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<p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hal Frater</font> <font color="#FFFFFF" size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">passed away on February 3, 2008, just a month from celebrating his 99th birthday. </font></p>
<p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hal Frater had a long and prolific career. He became a sought after commercial artist for over fifty years and was an early member of the well-know Society of Illustrators in New York City. All the while he would return to his studio and paint for himself rather than his clients. Yet he always retained his illustration roots in wanting to tell a story on canvas with his keen eye of observation on the human condition.</font></p>
<p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Often he would join fellow artists in informal sessions and paint from a model - no formal art school training but a mutually beneficial learning experience. His contemporaries that influenced him were Jack Levine, Raphael Soyer, John Sloan, Thomas Hart Benton, Reginald Marsh and Phillip Reisman.</font></p>
<p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">courtesy of Nancy di Benedetto, Art Historian and Critic</font> <br />
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