Chris Beetles Gallery

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The Firmament of Time

Eric Fraser (1902-1983)

Price

£1,450

Signed

Signed

Medium

Pen ink, watercolour and bodycolour

Dimensions

8 x 6 inches

Provenance

The Artist's Family

Illustrated

Loren Eiseley, The Firmament of Time, London: Foyle's Book Club, 1962, Dust Jacket

Literature

Sylvia Backemeyer, Eric Fraser. Designer & Illustrator, London: Lund Humphries, 1998, Page 56

Exhibited

'Eric Fraser 1902-1983', Chris Beetles Gallery, April-May 2013, No 168;
'A Century of British Art: 1945-2010', Chris Beetles Gallery, 5 October-6 November 2021, No 283

In The Firmament of Time (1960), the distinguished anthropologist, Loren Eiseley (1907-1977), examined what the human species had become in the late twentieth century. A review in The Chicago Tribune stated that the book ‘has a warm feeling for all natural phenomena; it has a rapport with man and his world and his problems; … it has hope and belief. And it has the beauty of prose that characterizes Eiseley’s philosophical moods’. In designing the cover, Eric Fraser created an image that summarised man’s evolutionary trajectory.

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