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THBArthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928) The Peasant Sportsman
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Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928)
The Peasant Sportsman, 1911
signed "A.B. Frost" lower right
oil on canvas, 14 1/2 by 17 1/2 in.
together with preliminary pencil sketch, 6 3/4 by 10 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 Illustration, he illustrated more than ninety books and produced 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. The artist 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, The Peasant Sportsman, is the original oil reproduced by Scribner's Magazine in a 1911 article by Ethel Rose on shooting in Normandy, France. She describes the setting, äóìFields, woods, and meadows stretch unobstructed, sometimes for miles and miles, often without boundaries of any kind except the deeply sunken stones that mark the corners of property limits." Of the dogs involved, she writes, "Besides the setters, retrievers, pointers, and others known and used at home there are many side [breeds] of these dogs as well as the truly national 'griffons' of various sorts, rough-coated intelligent beasts of many types and sizes, adapted to and trained for different purposes."
Rose continues, "There will be wonderful autumn days of golden haze and drifting, pale gold leaves, when faint smoke smells are in the air; and later frosty mornings in what seems a silver world, all of it among such picturesque surrounding as will make the season one hark back to often in memory on future winter evenings 'back home'."
PROVENANCE: Private Collection, Freehold, New Jersey, purchased from the Crossroads of Sport
LITERATURE: Ethel Rose, "Shooting in France (Normandy)," Scribner's Magazine, Vol. XLIX, No. 4, April 1911, pp. 399-409, illustrated.Condition
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