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Arthur Burdett Frost, A Close Game Between the Squire and the Postmaster
Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928)
Published: at least twice, as a magazine centerfold, and
in a contemporary book about the artist
Date/Period: Circa 1902

Arthur Burdett Frost, A Close Game Between the Squire and the Postmaster
Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928), entire view

Measurement: Frame: 21.5" x 15.5"; view: 18" x 11.75"

Material: Oil on academy board

Condition: Fine, cleaned, and stabilized by Tom Yost. modern frame

Note: There are both watercolor and oil versions of this composition, probably because
of its importance to the artist’s body of work. The oil has slight differences in detail and
most notably, more floor space along the lower edge of the painting.

N.B. The composition of the oil is slightly different/larger than the illustration, this is
evident if you look at the signature and lower right corner where the boxes come up to
the border of the image, whereas they extend further in the painting.

Publications: Centerfold for Collier’s Illustrated Weekly December 20, 1902, Vol. 30,
no. 12, pp. 11-12. Reproduced as a full-page illustration with related poem on opposing
page in Wallace Irwin, A Book of Drawings by A. B. Frost, 1904, New York. This book
had at least two editions; one was published by Collier’s and the other, Fox & Duffield.
This is the same composition that was published in Collier’s Weekly magazine, e.g., the
watercolor version

Additional Information: Depicted is a cast of characters playing checkers in a general
store. Noteworthy is the Frost’s often-repeated hunter perches on the countertop at right
with his brace of rabbits and rifle leaning against the counter. His faithful spotted hound
sleeps on the floor at the left. Frost painted a series of these diorama-like country store
scenes just after the turn of the twentieth century. Some of the same characters turn up
repeatedly, notably the checker player at right with his jutting beard. Perhaps they were
associates of the artist, who at that time lived on a farm in Convent, New Jersey, near
Morristown; he actively participated in annual shows at the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts. Frost’s hunting and rural genre themes were incredibly popular in the day
and continue as such today; with pages from the magazines and the Frost book sold
separately online as “prints.”

Arthur Burdett Frost: The artist was one of the pre-eminent illustrators of the so-called
Golden Age of American Illustration. Although largely self-taught, he studied briefly
under Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and with William
Merritt Chase at his Shinnecock, Long Island, summer school; the latter deemed him to
be a genius. During his long career, Frost illustrated close to 100 books and worked
prolifically for the leading American magazines and newspapers, including Harper’s
Weekly, Life, Collier’s Weekly, and Century. He was a member of the Tile Club and the
Society of Illustrators. He is represented in many museums, including the Sterling and
Francine Clark Art Institute, Shelburne Museum, National Gallery, New Britain Museum
of American Art, New-York Historical Society, Parrish Art Museum, Fine Arts Museum of
San Francisco, Brandywine River Museum, Delaware Art Museum, Museum of Fine
Arts Boston, and the Princeton University Art Museum.

$28,500.00

1292-4

Arthur Burdett Frost, A Close Game Between the Squire and the Postmaster
Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928), detail view 1

Arthur Burdett Frost, A Close Game Between the Squire and the Postmaster
Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928), detail view 2

Arthur Burdett Frost, A Close Game Between the Squire and the Postmaster
Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928), detail view 3

Arthur Burdett Frost, A Close Game Between the Squire and the Postmaster
Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928), detail view 4

Arthur Burdett Frost, A Close Game Between the Squire and the Postmaster
Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928), back view

Arthur Burdett Frost, A Close Game Between the Squire and the Postmaster
Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928), back detail

Arthur Burdett Frost, A Close Game Between the Squire and the Postmaster
Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928), book view

Arthur Burdett Frost, A Close Game Between the Squire and the Postmaster
Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928), book view 2

Paintings, Pair, Mrs. Susan M. Waters, Landscapes Featuring Cows and Sheep
Both signed, “Mrs. Susan M. Waters”, one dated 1885
Date/Period: 1885

Paintings, Pair, Mrs. Susan M. Waters, Landscapes Featuring Cows and Sheep Both signed, “Mrs. Susan M. Waters”, one dated 1885, entire view painting 1

Measurement: 52" x 36.25" each

Material: Oil on canvas, One of the original stretchers retains label of Janentzky & Co.,
1125 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

Condition: Excellent condition save for a trivial small three-corner tear in cloud

Additional Information: Cows and sheep on a hillock adjacent to a stream before a
mountain vista and pleasant clouded blue sky.

Susan (Moore) Waters, a self-taught artist (1823-1900) was born in Binghamton, New
York, her family moved to Friendsville, Pennsylvania where she was raised. Albeit self-
taught she enjoyed and demonstrated enough talent and skill to earn her tuition in
seminary school by producing natural history drawings for one of her instructors.

During her artistic career of nearly 60 years, her oeuvre included two different bodies
or work; she is well-known for her early naively-rendered portraits. Waters would
eventually become a successful still-life and animal painter, displaying a level of
proficiency rarely achieved by folk painters. Her highly accomplished still-life paintings
and animal pictures were in demand as fashionable parlor ornaments.

Mrs. Waters exhibited in the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia; her work is
represented in the collections of the New York State Historical Association, Wiltshire
College, Newark Museum, Cortland County Historical Society, and the Arnot Art
Museum among others.

$24,500.00 the pair

1353-28

Paintings, Pair, Mrs. Susan M. Waters, Landscapes Featuring Cows and Sheep Both signed, “Mrs. Susan M. Waters”, one dated 1885, entire view painting 2

Paintings, Pair, Mrs. Susan M. Waters, Landscapes Featuring Cows and Sheep Both signed, “Mrs. Susan M. Waters”, one dated 1885, detail view painting 1

Paintings, Pair, Mrs. Susan M. Waters, Landscapes Featuring Cows and Sheep Both signed, “Mrs. Susan M. Waters”, one dated 1885, detail view painting 2

Paintings, Pair, Mrs. Susan M. Waters, Landscapes Featuring Cows and Sheep Both signed, “Mrs. Susan M. Waters”, one dated 1885, artist detail 1

Paintings, Pair, Mrs. Susan M. Waters, Landscapes Featuring Cows and Sheep Both signed, “Mrs. Susan M. Waters”, one dated 1885, artist detail 2

Paintings, Pair, Mrs. Susan M. Waters, Landscapes Featuring Cows and Sheep Both signed, “Mrs. Susan M. Waters”, one dated 1885, back view 1

Paintings, Pair, Mrs. Susan M. Waters, Landscapes Featuring Cows and Sheep Both signed, “Mrs. Susan M. Waters”, one dated 1885, back view 2

Paintings, Pair, Mrs. Susan M. Waters, Landscapes Featuring Cows and Sheep Both signed, “Mrs. Susan M. Waters”, one dated 1885, back detail

Folk Art Painting, Active Carting Scene
Date/Period: 19^th Century

Folk Art Painting, Active Carting Scene, entire view

Measurement: Frame: 28.25" x 18.5"; view: 24.25" x 14.5"

Material: Oil on canvas

Condition: Scattered fill, patch to small tear, original stretcher, and frame

Additional Information: Depicted is an active rural carting operation featuring several
vignettes including a small warehouse, perhaps 12-wagons, stables; horses, people,
pigs and more. Likely rendered for the proprietor who was proud of his environs.

$6,225.00

928-119

Folk Art Painting, Active Carting Scene, detail view 1

Folk Art Painting, Active Carting Scene, detail view 2

Folk Art Painting, Active Carting Scene, detail view 3

Folk Art Painting, Active Carting Scene, artist

Folk Art Painting, Active Carting Scene, back view

Folk Art Painting of Three Well Fed Pigs, Signed Frank Michaels
Date/Period: Circa 1880-1900 - SOLD

Folk Art Painting of Three Well Fed Pigs, Signed Frank Michaels, entire view

Measurement: Frame: 33" x 27"; view: 28.5" x 22.25"

Material: Oil on canvas, paint decorated frame

Condition: Original condition, never cleaned

Additional Information: The vista of fields and mountain range beneath clouded blue
sky offered a pleasant backdrop for three fenced-in piggies and outbuilding. The
pictures is signed at lower right.

SOLD

859-41

Folk Art Painting of Three Well Fed Pigs, Signed Frank Michaels, entire view sans frame

Folk Art Painting of Three Well Fed Pigs, Signed Frank Michaels, signature

Folk Art Painting of Three Well Fed Pigs, Signed Frank Michaels, back view

Antique Folk Art Painting on Panel,
Prized Bull Standing in Stall
Illegibly Signed at Lower Left, also,
AJR 1872 on Beam at Left
Date/Period: 1872

Antique Folk Art Painting on Panel, Prized Bull Standing in Stall Illegibly Signed at Lower Left, also, AJR 1872 on Beam at Left, entire view 1

Measurement: Frame: 19.75 x 25.25"; view: 13.75" x 19.25")

Material: Oil on panel

Condition: Fine original condition including frame

Additional Information: This wonderful portrait is mounted within original paint
decorated frame.

$4,850.00

879-127

Antique Folk Art Painting on Panel, Prized Bull Standing in Stall Illegibly Signed at Lower Left, also, AJR 1872 on Beam at Left, detail view

Antique Folk Art Painting on Panel, Prized Bull Standing in Stall Illegibly Signed at Lower Left, also, AJR 1872 on Beam at Left, artist detail

Antique Folk Art Painting on Panel, Prized Bull Standing in Stall Illegibly Signed at Lower Left, also, AJR 1872 on Beam at Left, signature detail

Antique Folk Art Painting on Panel, Prized Bull Standing in Stall Illegibly Signed at Lower Left, also, AJR 1872 on Beam at Left, back view

19th Century Folk Art, The Unwelcome Guest,
Girl Holding Rose with Dog
By D.B.S. Lyons, Watercolor on Thin Brushed Cotton,
Mounted on Paper

The picture is mounted within reddish-brown painted and splined frame.
(Frame: 5.125" x 5.125"; view: 3.125" x 3.125")

$1,475.00

632-80

18^th Century Dutch Watercolor, Travelers, Herdsman
Anonymous
Watercolor on paper, brilliant color

Drovers driving cattle and sheep, a man approaches a thatched roof dwelling by
crossed a stream on footbridge perhaps to arrange lodging, beautifully rendered trees
and sky. Excellent condition with extremely minor light water spotting/staining at top
center margin, else fine. (Frame: 26" x 22"; view: 16.25" x 20.25")

18th Century Dutch Watercolor, Travelers, Herdsman
Anonymous
Watercolor on paper, brilliant color, back view

$1,450.00

786-14

Vintage Folk Art, Pastel of Cat Named Pumpkin
Anonymous, First Half of 20th Century

(Frame: 19.25" x 11.5"; view: 17.25" x 9.5")

Vintage Folk Art, Pastel of Cat Named Pumpkin
Anonymous, First Half of 20th Century, back view

$750.00

1283-64

Antique Pastel, Mischievous Puppy with Lace Kerchief
Anonymous, Circa 1870
Fluffy bright-eyed puppy plays with textile of colorful carpet - SOLD

Antique Pastel, Mischievous Puppy with Lace Kerchief
Anonymous, Circa 1870
Fluffy bright-eyed puppy plays with textile of colorful carpet, entire view

(Fine condition, mounted with period gilt frame frame-21.75" x 18" x 2.25")

Antique Pastel, Mischievous Puppy with Lace Kerchief
Anonymous, Circa 1870
Fluffy bright-eyed puppy plays with textile of colorful carpet, back view

SOLD

1280-3

Locomotive, Mixed Media Painting
Hinkley & Dury's Works, Boston and Fitchburg Railroad
American, 19th C., Signed T.F. Ramsay 1877 to 1888 (lr)
Painted pigment, applied gilt foil paper accents and wood rail on academy board

Locomotive, Mixed Media Painting, Hinkley & Dury's Works, Boston
Fitchburg Railroad
American, 19th Century, Signed T.F. Ramsay 1877 to 1888, entire view

Holmes Hinkley and Gardner P. Drury built stationary engines and began building locomotives 1840. According to inscriptions the locomotive was built in 1846, and later rebuilt at the Fitchburg Railroad repair shop in 1866. Period molded wood frame, gilt liner. (Good condition, subtle surface grime and stray marks; Frame: 20.5 by 15.5"; view: 16.5 by 11.5)

$1,725

232-314

Locomotive, Mixed Media Painting, Hinkley & Dury's Works, Boston
Fitchburg Railroad
American, 19th Century, Signed T.F. Ramsay 1877 to 1888, scale view

Locomotive, Mixed Media Painting, Hinkley & Dury's Works, Boston
Fitchburg Railroad
American, 19th Century, Signed T.F. Ramsay 1877 to 1888, detail view 1

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Arthur Burdett Frost, A Close Game Between the Squire and the Postmaster Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928) Published: at least twice, as a magazine centerfold, and in a contemporary book about the artist Date/Period: Circa 1902

Paintings, Pair, Mrs. Susan M. Waters, Landscapes Featuring Cows and Sheep Both signed, “Mrs. Susan M. Waters”, one dated 1885 Date/Period: 1885

Folk Art Painting, Active Carting Scene Date/Period: 19th Century

Folk Art Painting of Three Well Fed Pigs, Signed Frank Michaels Date/Period: Circa 1880-1900 - SOLD

Antique Folk Art Painting on Panel, Prized Bull Standing in Stall Illegibly Signed at Lower Left, also, AJR 1872 on Beam at Left Date/Period: 1872

19th Century Folk Art, The Unwelcome Guest, Girl Holding Rose with Dog By D.B.S. Lyons, Watercolor on Thin Brushed Cotton, Mounted on Paper

18th Century Dutch Watercolor, Travelers, Herdsman Anonymous Watercolor on paper, brilliant color

Vintage Folk Art, Pastel of Cat Named Pumpkin Anonymous, First Half of 20th Century

Antique Pastel, Mischievous Puppy with Lace Kerchief Anonymous, Circa 1870 Fluffy bright-eyed puppy plays with textile of colorful carpet - SOLD

Locomotive, Mixed Media PaintingHinkley & Dury's Works, Boston and Fitchburg Railroad American, 19th C., Signed T.F. Ramsay 1877 to 1888 (lr) Painted pigment, applied gilt foil paper accents and wood rail on academy board