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THBArthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928) Supper in Camp
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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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Supper in Camp, 1901
signed "A.B. Frost" lower left
gouache and watercolor, 17 by 26 1/2 in.
inscribed ""In the Woods".....AB Frost March 8, 1901" on backArthur 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 quintessential Frost painting tells the story of three successful hunters that have returned to camp. Frosts hallmark figure renderings come to life in every sense. The middle gentleman lifts his pipe while cracking a wry smile acknowledging the fortunes of the day. Frost conveys incredible details down to the cooks checkered shirt and the sitting gentleman's wire spectacles. A brace of ruffed grouse hang next to the eight point buck. A native weaving hangs alongside a lantern on the birtch tree. The two recently employed guns lean inside the tent, the pot of coffee rests by the fire, and an axe awaits its next use.
The exceptional narrative composition, tremendous draftmanship, and extensive detail of this major Frost place it among the artists pinnacle works.
This painting appears in the artist's 1904 publication, "A Book of Drawings," with an introduction by important American author Joel Chandler Harris and accompanying text by Wallace Irwin:
Supper in Camp
The forest has its perfumes blown
From many a balsam-laden cone,
But somehow they inspire me not
When supper's steaming in the pot.
The wood has many a magic call
When branches lisp and waters fall,
But none that sound more deeply sweet
Than Jake's announcement, "Time to eat!"
Provenance: Private Collection, New JerseyLiterature: A.B. Frost, "A Book of Drawings," New York, NY, 1904, illustrated.
"The Sporting Art of A.B. Frost," Columbia, SC, 1994, illustrated.Condition
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