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English Snipe, 1895
watercolor and gouache, 14 by 21 1/2 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 American 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, English Snipe Shooting, is the original watercolor reproduced by Charles Scribner's Sons in Frost's "Shooting Pictures," a portfolio of twelve chromolithograph prints. It is considered one of the artist's most iconic and recognized works.
Provenance: John T. Dorrance Jr. Collection
Private Collection
Literature: Henry W. Lanier, ?A.B. Frost: The American Sportsman's Artist, New York, NY, 1933, p. 160, illustrated.
A.B. Frost, "Shooting Pictures," New York, NY, 1895, illustrated.
Henry M. Reed, "The A.B. Frost Book," Rutland, VT, 1967, p. 88, illustrated.
Sotheby's, "The Collection of John T Dorrance Jr: Important Impressionist, Modern, American and European Paintings," New York, October 18, 1989, lot 63, illustrated.
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