2022 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 258
258
Luke Frazier (b. 1970)
Evening Prize (2022)
oil on board
24 × 36 inches
signed lower right
VERSO
Signed and titled
The artist writes, “Joys come from simple and natural things – love of the outdoors, camaraderie of brothers with a common goal of adventure, camping gear and a canoe.”
“There is magic in the feel of a paddle and the movement of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance, adventure, solitude, and peace. The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness and of a freedom almost forgotten. It is an antidote to insecurity, the open door to waterways of ages past and a way of life with profound and abiding satisfactions. When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known.” – Sigurd F. Olson, The Singing Wilderness