Landscape painter, Francis Seth Frost, a Bostonian, made his first trip West in 1859 as part of the Lander Wyoming Expedition, which went into Idaho as well as Wyoming. The expedition purpose was to... Read full biography
Landscape painter, Francis Seth Frost, a Bostonian, made his first trip West in 1859 as part of the Lander Wyoming Expedition, which went into Idaho as well as Wyoming. The expedition purpose was to find a 'cut off' or alternate route to the north of Mormon occupied lands in response to the... Read full biography
Landscape painter, Francis Seth Frost, a Bostonian, made his first trip West in 1859 as part of the Lander Wyoming Expedition, which went into Idaho as well as Wyoming. The expedition purpose was to find a 'cut off' or alternate route to the north of Mormon occupied lands in response to the Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857. This killing had occurred in a meadow near Cedar City, Utah, where Mormon's, allegedly with Indian assistance, had murdered 128 emigrants from Arkansas. Albert Bierstadt... Read full biography
Landscape painter, Francis Seth Frost, a Bostonian, made his first trip West in 1859 as part of the Lander Wyoming Expedition, which went into Idaho as well as Wyoming. The expedition purpose was to find a 'cut off' or alternate route to the north of Mormon occupied lands in response to the Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857. This killing had occurred in a meadow near Cedar City, Utah, where Mormon's, allegedly with Indian assistance, had murdered 128 emigrants from Arkansas. Albert Bierstadt and Henry Hitchings were also artists members of the group, and on this trip the Expedition left from Saint Joseph, Missouri. Frost then had his own studio in Boston, and also briefly took up photography. According to John J. Henderson, scholar of the... Read full biography
Landscape painter, Francis Seth Frost, a Bostonian, made his first trip West in 1859 as part of the Lander Wyoming Expedition, which went into Idaho as well as Wyoming. The expedition purpose was to find a 'cut off' or alternate route to the north of Mormon occupied lands in response to the Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857. This killing had occurred in a meadow near Cedar City, Utah, where Mormon's, allegedly with Indian assistance, had murdered 128 emigrants from Arkansas. Albert Bierstadt and Henry Hitchings were also artists members of the group, and on this trip the Expedition left from Saint Joseph, Missouri. Frost then had his own studio in Boston, and also briefly took up photography. According to John J. Henderson, scholar of the White Mountain School of Painting, the middle name of Shedd is mistakenly linked to this artis... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (10)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
A Sweet Foretaste of Heaven Artists in the White Mountains,1830-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1988
McGrath, Robert/B J McAdam
99 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985
Dawdy, Doris
1,184 pages
The Book of Nature: American Painters & the Natural Sublime Hudson River Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Murphy, Frank (Essay)
112 pages (color)
American Paintings (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Schwarz-Philadelphia
23 pages
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)