FROST, Arthur Burdett (1851–1928). [Black woman

FROST, Arthur Burdett (1851–1928). [Black woman in a cotton field]. Date unknown. Watercolor on paper with white highlights. Matted and framed, 21 ½ x 14 ¾”. Includes envelope addressed to commercial illustrator and woodcut artist Herschel C. Logan from the artist’s son, John Frost. Not examined out of frame. Provenance: Herschel C. Logan (recipient). Arthur Burdett Frost was an American illustrator who is today best known for his work on Joel Chandler Harris’s “Uncle Remus” series. During the early years of his career he worked on illustrations for Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and Charles Dickens, and these illustrations cemented his reputation as one of the most skilled illustrators working in the United States. Strongly influenced by Eadweard Muybridge’s style of serial photography, Frost began to experiment with successive illustration panels and dialogues in many of his works – considered to be one of the first instances of the standard comic strip style.