Jan 28, 2021 - Sale 2556

Sale 2556 - Lot 231

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
ARTHUR B. FROST (1851-1928)
"Fashion on the green." A sketch of a turn-of-the-century female golfer. Graphite, ink, and wash, heightened in white, on board. 521x216 mm; 20 1/2x8 1/2 inches. Signed "A.B. Frost" in lower right image. Framed.

Provenance: Swann Galleries, June 5, 2018, lot 79; thence to Dick McDonough.



During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Frost created thousands of illustrations for esteemed periodicals such as Harper's Weekly, Scribner's and Life as well as hundreds of oils and watercolors. In addition to his illustrations for the Uncle Remus tales by Joel Chandler Harris, he is probably best known for his hunting, shooting and golf images like this cover that capture the mood and drama of sport in realistically detailed settings.