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Picture Page September 2015 More of A. B. Frost's sporting prints ... I'll continue this month with A. B. Frost and look at the
1903 Scribner's portfolio of six prints titled "A Days
Hunting". It was packed in a box which included two additional pieces of
Frost's artwork,
an illustration on t I have been able to find two reasonably priced prints from
the set, these being "Ordered Off", which depicts a hunter
being advised by a land owner that he is not allowed to hunt on the property
(shown above), and "Gun Shy", which depicts one
The last print is "We've Got Him" (shown below), which depicts and old black hunter armed with a muzzle loading gun having shot a rabbit and the child with him jumping for joy, possibly at the thought of fresh meat for dinner pot.
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The complete set of eight prints was included in color on
pages 401 through 408 of the October 1903 issue of Scribners Magazine. What
strikes me as odd is that nowhere in that issue of the magazine could I
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. . . . . . . . This print is titled 'Prairie Chickens'; it is the first print in the portfolio and appears to have been used as the basis for the portfolio's cover illustration. Individual A. B. Frost prints are not difficult to find, and can be purchased at reasonnable prices if you are patient. Finding certain prints can be frustrating, and complete sets of prints are generally not found. References: The A. B. Frost Book, Henry Reed, 1993, Wyrick & Co, Charleston, S.C. A. B. Frost The American Sportsman's Artist, Henry W. Lanier, 1990, The Derrydale Press. Inc Scribners Magazine, Charles Scribner's Sons, October 1903, pp 401 through 408
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he box top titled "Starting Out" showing a hunter and
his excited dog eagerly starting out for the day's hunt while the
illustration on the bottom titled "Returning Home" showed the same less
energetic pair headed in after a hard day in the field. It is thought that
less than 2500 copies of this portfolio were produced and, like the 1895
"Shooting Pictures" portfolio, it is quite difficult to assemble all six
prints as a set, much less to find an intact set of prints with the box
due to the
tendency of the owners to frame the prints they liked best and
discard or store
away the remainder. 
of a pair of dogs having
been frightened by the shotgun blast
and running off from the hunters (shown to the right). These two
prints were the most popular of the set, and tended to be the ones that were
framed. As a consequence, these are the two that are most commonly found. 
Also
included in the set were "Good Luck" and "Bad Luck", the first showing two
hunters returning from a duck hunt after having bagged their limit and the
second showing the same two hunters returning with no ducks. These two
prints tend to be found more often than the last two in the set, one of
which is "Smoking Him Out" (shown below), which depicts an old hunter
waiting to get a shot at a squirrel while his grandson
(perhaps)
blows on smoking leaves in a split in the trunk of the tree that the varmint
is hiding in. 
find
any reference to the availability of the prints for purchase, although other
Scribner's artwork (including sporting art by other artists) is offered. The
table of contents lists it as 'The Days Shooting. Eight drawings by A. B.
Frost reproduced in colors'. 
In
1899, Harpers & Brothers published a portfolio of 55 black and white prints
by Frost titled 'Sports & Games in the Open'. Subject matter includes
hunting, fishing, golf, and bicycling. Each page has one or two prints, and
has a piece of tissue paper with the title printed on it attached to one
edge. These pages are loose in the portfolio, and measure 16 1/2" x 11 1/2".
Once again, the complete portfolios are rarely found, due in part to the
difficulty that is encountered when trying to view the individual prints
without damaging the attached tissue papers. 
