Frazier, Barbara Brown

(1914-1988)

As a teen, Frazier studied portraiture with Dimitri Romanovsky (Russian/American, 1887-1971) in New York City and landscapes with Emile A. Gruppé (1896-1978) in Rockport, MA. She also attended the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida.

After raising a family in mainland Massachusetts, she moved to Pleasant Street in 1974 and joined the AAN. She began a second. renewed career that spanned two decades under the tutelage of Philip Burnham Hicken and included five solo exhibitions at the AAN's The Little Gallery — the last in 1988.

Her son Douglas was the AAN president for one year from 1976-1977; her son Robert was the AAN president for five years from 1999-2004.