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1890 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 1937 Pasadena, California. Known for: Desert landscape and genre painting.
Born in Philadelphia, John Frost painted luminous, colorful views of the Sierras, desert landscapes of Arizona, and some village scenes. He was one of the few California artists whose work had a pure... Read full biography
Born in Philadelphia, John Frost painted luminous, colorful views of the Sierras, desert landscapes of Arizona, and some village scenes. He was one of the few California artists whose work had a pure French Impressionist style, and of this painting style it was written the he was a Californian who... Read full biography
Born in Philadelphia, John Frost painted luminous, colorful views of the Sierras, desert landscapes of Arizona, and some village scenes. He was one of the few California artists whose work had a pure French Impressionist style, and of this painting style it was written the he was a Californian who "did not hesitate to apply the delicate Impressionist technique to as uncompromising a place as a desert." (Moure 165). However, his brief life was curtailed by tuberculosis, and his paintings are... Read full biography
Born in Philadelphia, John Frost painted luminous, colorful views of the Sierras, desert landscapes of Arizona, and some village scenes. He was one of the few California artists whose work had a pure French Impressionist style, and of this painting style it was written the he was a Californian who "did not hesitate to apply the delicate Impressionist technique to as uncompromising a place as a desert." (Moure 165). However, his brief life was curtailed by tuberculosis, and his paintings are scarce. He was the son of famous illustrator Arthur B. Frost. Called Jack, he studied with his father and in Paris as a child at Academie Julian under Jean Paul Laurens. From 1906 to 1908, he painted in Paris with Richard Miller and often visited him at... Read full biography
Born in Philadelphia, John Frost painted luminous, colorful views of the Sierras, desert landscapes of Arizona, and some village scenes. He was one of the few California artists whose work had a pure French Impressionist style, and of this painting style it was written the he was a Californian who "did not hesitate to apply the delicate Impressionist technique to as uncompromising a place as a desert." (Moure 165). However, his brief life was curtailed by tuberculosis, and his paintings are scarce. He was the son of famous illustrator Arthur B. Frost. Called Jack, he studied with his father and in Paris as a child at Academie Julian under Jean Paul Laurens. From 1906 to 1908, he painted in Paris with Richard Miller and often visited him at Giverny, the Impressionist Colony that was the home of Claude Monet. From 1912-14, he was a patient in a tuberculosis sanitarium in Swit... Read full biography
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Legacy of the Land Exhibition Catalog
2015
(Exhibition catalog)Colestock, Keith103 pages (color)California Light: A Century of Landscapes Paintings of the California Art Club
2011Stern, Jean and Molly Siple (Skira Rizzoli Publisher)276 pages (color)The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesArtists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
2002
Available For Sale.Hughes, Edan Milton1,249 pagesFor Sale<a href="mailto:info@askart.com">Available For Sale</a>.In and Out of California: Travels of American Impressionists
2002
(Exhibition catalog)Solon, Deborah Epstein152 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesPainted Light: California Impressionists from the Gardena High School Collection
1999
(Exhibition catalog)Stern, Jean54 pages (color)California Impressionism
1998Gerdts, William; Will South284 pages (color)California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media
1998Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall560 pages (color)California Impressionists
1996
(Exhibition catalog)Landauer, Susan; Donald D. Keyes and Jean Stern103 pages (color)The Red Book Western American Price Index
1993Southwest Art126 pagesSelections from the Irvine Museum
1992Stern, Jean; Janet Blake Doninik and Harvey L. Jones128 pages (color)Artists in California, 1786-1940
1989Hughes, Edan Milton637 pagesMantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pagesArtists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985Dawdy, Doris1,184 pagesWho Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)707 pagesSouthern California Art Publication 3, Dictionary
1984Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall291 pagesThe World of A B Frost His Family and Their Circle
1983
(Exhibition catalog)Reed, Henry M28 pages (color)Dictionary of American Artists
1982Opitz, Glenn372 pagesThe Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976Samuels, Peggy and Harold549 pagesThe New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957Groce, George; David Wallace759 pagesMallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pages