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THBArthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928) His Antlers Were Not Record Ones
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Pembroke, MA 02359
United States
Founded in 2005, Copley Fine Art Auctions is a boutique auction house specializing in antique decoys and American, sporting, and wildlife paintings. Over the course of the last two decades, the firm has set auction records for not only individual decoy makers, but also entire carving regions. Copley...Read more
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LiveJul 28, 2017 - Jul 29, 2017
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His Antlers Were Not Record Ones
signed "A.B. Frost" lower left
watercolor and gouache, 24 by 21 in.
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona label on back
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, New York label on back
Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., New York, New York label on back“And at the identical moment, as if in response to his regular morning call, with a crash of kindling-wood en passant, there stepped out of the marsh the greatest old bull moose ever seen. His antlers – panaches – were not record ones, it turned out later, but to me at that moment they looked the height of the Singer Building.”
Provenance: Private Collection, New Jersey Literature: Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, “The Discovery of Pouce-Long,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. LX, No. 2, August 1916, p. 185, illustrated.Exhibited: Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix Art Museum, "The Popular West: American Illustrators 1900-1940," April 1 -- May 30, 1982, no. 12, illustrated (This exhibition also traveled to Palm Springs, California, Palm Springs Desert Museum)
New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, “Call of the Wild: The Primal Adventure,” October 18 – November 10, 1984Condition
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