 Bronze
Life cast hands represents a unique place in the 20
year career of Raelee Frazier. With years of experience
in making life casts for historical figures for exhibits
in national museums, the arrival of major league baseball
in Denver brought an exciting request from a restaurant
to her studio. The owners wanted a museum oriented display
of baseball artifacts. Raelee brought back a design
idea of bronze life casts the at would have the feel
of some of baseballs legendary players. In this artists
eyes, the individual uniqueness of the players hands
gripping a bat - as if awaiting the next pitch - or
the football preparing to pass the winning touchdown
powerfully communicated to the viewer the historical
hits and passes the hands had delivered. One of the
highlights of Frazier's career is making the molds of
Sir Edmund Hillary's (famed Everest connection) hands
holding an ice ax in 1999.
Now Raelee has teamed up with Christopher L. Tucker,
who provides the sports connections, to create a collection
of legendary sports personalities life cast hands.
This so called "Allstar Cast" series has
attracted a number of patrons who, like any art patron,
have a special emotional attachment to the work.
A partial listing of museums in which Highland Studio
has placed work is listed below:
- The Smithsonian Institution, American History
Division
- The Denver Art Museum
- South Dakota State Historical Society
- Grand Rapids Public Museum of Wisconsin
- Ft. Leavenworth Frontier Army Museum, Ft. Leavenworth,
Kansas
- Iowa State Historical Museum
- Virginia State Historical Society
- California State Parks Division
- Missouri Sports Hall of Fame
- San Diego Hall of Champions Sport Museum
- Ted William's Retrospective Museum
- Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
- Colorado Sports Hall of Fame
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