Career
Although recognized principally for her medallic contributions, Laura won outstanding commissions to do heroic-size sculpture. Most distinguished was her winning the competition to do the double equestrian statue of Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in Baltimore. The competition was held in 1936 and six eminent American sculptors (including Paul Manship and Lee Lawrie) including Laura Fraser were invited to submit designs. Laura was the only woman sculptor invited to enter the competition.
She won competitions for the Charles Lindberg Congressional Medal, the official United States George Washington Bicentennial Medal, and the Benjamin Franklin Congressional Medal in honor of his 250th birthday. Fraser was awarded the following among her medallic commissions: United States Army and Navy Chaplains' Medal, World War I; Irish Setter Club Medal; Morgan Horse Club Medal; Better Babies Medal, for Woman's Home Companion; Alabama Commemorative fifty cent piece; Ulysses S. Grant Memorial fifty cent piece and gold dollar; Fort Vancouver fifty cent piece; General Douglas MacArthur peso and fifty centavo coins for the Philippine government; Admiral Richard E. Byrd Medal and the Hubbard Medal, both for the National Geographic Society; Massachusetts Tercentenary Medal; the United States Military Academy Sesquicentennial Medal; the Sylvanus Thayer Medal for the United States Military Academy; Bide-A-Wee Medal for human imagination; the American Bar Association Medal; the Smithsonian Institute's National Academy of Sciences Medal; the S. F. B. Morse American Geographic Society Medal; the Wolcott Medal for the Smithsonian Institute; the Oklahoma Semi-Centennial Medal; the Medal of Honor of the National Sculpture Society; and the American Numismatic Society Medal.
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