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Notes for Arthur Burdett FROST
The Philadelphia Public Ledger once described him as "the most American of American artists . . . Few of his sort remain." Illustrator Arthur Burdett Frost was born in Philadelphia in 1851, one of ten children. In 1874 he was employed as a lithographer when his comical drawings for Max Adeler's book, Out of the Hurly Burly, vaulted him from obscurity to fame. The following year Charles Parsons began assigning him articles for Harper's Weekly. In the next fifty years, a period spanning the "golden age" of American illustration, Frost illustrated countless articles and 90 books written by such luminaries as Lewis Carroll, Theodore Roosevelt and Mark Twain. Although he was color blind, Frost worked in gouache and watercolor, capturing bucolic autumn scenes of hunters and dogs at critical moments in pursuit of upland game or shorebirds. The finest example is "Shooting Pictures," a portfolio of 12 lithographic prints done for Charles Scribner's Sons in 1895. Frost will always be remembered for down-home humor. His portrayal of the finagling Br'er Rabbit helped establish the Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus books as American literature classics.
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