Fraser, James Earle (1876-1953), an American sculptor, created many public and architectural sculptures. These works include the statue of Alexander Hamilton (1921) in front of the United States Treasury and the south pediment (1935) of the National Archives Building, both in Washington, D.C. Fraser’s most famous work, The End of the Trail (1915), shows an exhausted Indian on horseback. He also designed the buffalo nickel (1913), a coin with a buffalo on one side and the head of an Indian on the reverse side.
Fraser was born on Nov. 4, 1876, in Winona, Minnesota. He lived and studied in Paris from 1895 to 1899 and served as an assistant to American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens for four years. Fraser died on Oct. 11, 1953.
