Canadian artist Donald Gordon Fraser, AOCA 1944, studied under Franklin Carmichael, John Alfsen, Yvonne Mckague-Housser, George Pepper, Rowley Murphy, Manly MacDonald and Eric Aldwinkle. He was an instructor at the OCA from 1946 to 1951. From 1955 until 1985 he worked for the CBC as a Scenic Artist, all the while creating for his own purposes, a large body of vigorous portraits and landscapes in sepia, watercolour and oil.