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THBArthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928) Bay Snipe Shooting
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Pembroke, MA 02359
United States
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LiveJul 27, 2017 - Jul 28, 2017
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Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928) Bay Snipe Shooting, 1900
signed and dated "A.B. Frost. 1900" lower right
watercolor and gouache en grisaille, 16 1/4 by 25 1/2 in.
This important Frost depicts two competent hunters crouched in a blind, their bag of birds is piling up behind as they await the next flight. Frost skillfully depicts subtle details such as the water jug, lunch basket, guns, and shorebird decoys. It served as the centerfold illustration in the April 28, 1900 issue of Harper's Weekly.
"Another feature of the work of Mr. Frost is that it is essentially and peculiarly American. The books that he has interpreted by means of his illustrations are concerned with people in almost every part of the Republic - New England, the South, the Middle West, and the Pacific Slope - but the characters he draws are always true to their environment; they belong to the time and the place, and could belong nowhere else; and they all show the influence of the American spirit and breathe in an atmosphere of American humor." - Joel Chandler Harris
Provenance: Bud Dominic Collection, by descent
Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Collection, acquired from the above
Literature: Harper's Weekly, April 28, 1900, pp. 390-391, illustrated.
Arthur Burdett Frost, "A Book of Drawings," New York, NY, 1904, p. ix.Condition
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