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THBArthur B. Frost (1859-1928) Grouse Shooting in the Rhododendrons
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United States
Copley Fine Art Auctions is the world's leading American sporting art auction company. Located in Hingham, MA, Copley specializes in antique decoys and 19th- and 20th-century American, sporting, and wildlife paintings. Principal Stephen O'Brien Jr., a fourth-generation sportsman with a refined colle...Read more
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Arthur B. Frost (1859-1928)
Grouse Shooting in the Rhododendrons
signed "A.B. Frost" lower left
watercolor, 17 1/2 by 25 3/4 in.
A. B. Frost was born in Philadelphia in 1851, but spent his most prolific years in New Jersey. Considered one of the great illustrators of the Golden Age of Illustration, he illustrated more than ninety books and produced thousands of illustrations for "Harper's Weekly, "Scribner's, and "Life magazines. Frost's illustrative work chronicles the mood and details of the daily life of farmers, hunters, and fishermen, as well as barnyards and pastoral motifs.
By 1876, he was on Harper's staff working on many books, including "Tom Sawyer, "Uncle Remus, and "Mr. Dooley. He also illustrated Theodore Roosevelt's sporting book, "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman."
Frost was an ardent sportsman who spent his summers and autumns fishing, rowing, and hunting ducks and snipe. He completed hundreds of watercolors and oils of the New Jersey seaside. Frost is best known for his hunting and shooting prints which capture the drama of sport in realistic, detailed settings. Frost lived at his estate, Moneysunk, in Convent Station, New Jersey.
This work, "Grouse Shooting in the Rhododendrons, is the original watercolor reproduced by The Derrydale Press in a "set of four A.B. Frost prints published in 1933-34 [that] are easily the most desirable of all the sporting prints to own. Made under the supervision of John Frost, the artist's second son, who himself hand-colored the first impressions,...these were done on the finest imported rag paper and the plates were destroyed after 200 copies were made. This "grouse hunting scene with an excellent study of an English setter pointing a bird is among Frost's finest work.Literature: Henry M. Reed, "The A.B. Frost Book," Rutland, VT, 1967, pp. 96, 99, print illustrated.
Condition
in good condition with very light even toning to sheet
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