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Checkers Artist Arthur Burdett Frost
Arthur Burdett Frost
1851 – 1928
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A Close Checkers Game
1904
- Early American painter, illustrator, graphic artist and cartoonist, who became known for his illustrations for renowned authors such as Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt and William Thackeray.
- Frost’s father, a historian and biographer, died when Arthur was nine and although he was one of ten children, only two siblings survived past his teenage years.
- Art was a mode of expression that Frost discovered early in life and it held a great fascination for him so he pursued a career in it as a lithographer; however, by the age of 23, he was working left rather uninspired by the medium, but then he was offered a chance to illustrate a satirical book, which became a sensation due to his 400 illustrations.
- Frost appeared to find a niche in illustration and cartooning and was often considered the ‘sportsman’s artist’ because of his elegant and witty golfing caricatures published in the contemporary magazine, Harper’s Weekly.
- He worked chiefly in New York City and became one of the most popular illustrators of his time; his most characteristic drawings portrayed various scenes of American rural life such as his theme of a casual game of checkers observed by interested spectators in his engraving, ‘A Close Game’.
- Hand coloured halftone engraving that depicted a detailed rendering of a leisurely checkers game between two men in a country store.
- Frost’s portrayal showed a realistic and vivid scene displaying the emotional concentration at the checkerboard in a rustic environment of the time.
- His media of choice varied according to the theme of his work and included charcoal sketches, gouache and ink drawings, oil and watercolour paintings.
- Arthur’s subject matter held a broad spectrum from wildlife to frontier settings to expression in the humorous genre and he favoured Impressionism before 1940, though became more interested in caricature and cartooning later in life.
- Rare in the field of art, Frost was blessed with a happy family life, fame and fortune from ca. 1870, but when his one son died from a brief, but violent illness in France, Frost never fully recovered from his shock and grief.
- In 1920, he moved his family to California for the sake of his second son’s health and stayed there until he peacefully passed away on January 22, 1928.
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