Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928) A.B. Frost was born in Philadelphia in 1851 and spent his most prolific years in New Jersey. Frost grew up watching and participating in many hunting experiences. He grew to love the sport and his sound draughtsmanship and intimate knowledge of nature combined to make him one of the greatest illustrators of rural America. Frost was red-green color blind, but it was not a great handicap since the majority of his work was reproduced in black and white. He managed to work successfully in color by reading the labels on the tubes and placing the colors in the proper order on his palette. Frost was a largely self-taught artist, although he studied briefly at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine art and with William Meritt Chase in 1891. He spent time in the art colony of Rockport, Massachusetts and the Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art. In 1875 Frost was hired at “New York Graphic”, and then moved to the Harper’s staff a year later. He illustrated over ninety books, including those by Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Teddy Roosevelt, and Mark Twain. Frost may be best remembered for his charming illustrations for the "Uncle Remus" tales by Joel Chandler Harris, along with his illustrations of the Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit from The Tar Baby. He usually treated his characters with humor, and in his drawings there was a directness and honesty which showed his sympathetic understanding of his subject. His work was in great demand and appeared in numerous magazines such as "Century", "Scribner's", "Cosmopolitan" and "Harpers". Frost chronicled aspects of America's cultural life for over five decades. Frost was also an ardent sportsman who spent his summers fishing, rowing, and hunting ducks and snipe. He completed hundreds of watercolors and oils of the New Jersey seaside and is probably best known for his hunting and shooting prints that capture the drama of sport in realistically detailed settings. “The Shooting Pictures” portfolio was reproduced by Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1895 and is a set of 12 lithographs of hunting scenes. The details in his pictures are always very specific, as though drawn on the spot, and so artfully chosen and placed as to carry out the picture's idea in a natural and entirely convincing manner. His scenes capture the drama of the sport - a hunter poised to shoot and a dog on point - with elements often integrated into a richly detailed woodland or marsh setting. Frost’s worked contained no idealism; he preferred to work true to life with genuine characteristics In 1906 he and his wife and two sons departed for Europe to live in and paint in France. Frost died in Pasadena, CA in 1928, and will be remembered as one of the great illustrators of the “Golden Age of American Illustration.”