The original painting, "Call of the Sea", which was inspired by the artist’s travel across Alaska and Canada, exceeded its expected sale price at the 2008 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction by over $15,000. Frazier, whose work was recently described as “an exotic combination of Kuhn’s modernism and the classic palette of the academicians” by National Museum of Wildlife Art cofounder Bill Kerr, looms large among living wildlife artists.