A. B. Frost
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Arthur Burdett Frost, usually cited as A. B. Frost, was an American illustrator, graphic artist, painter and comics writer. He is best known for his illustrations of Br'er Rabbit and other characters
A.B. Frost tombstone in Laurel Hill Cemetery
Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby from the 1895 version of Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings
Rail Shooting, by A B Frost from Shooting Pictures, by Scribner & Sons (1895)
Front Cover of The Golfer's Alphabet (1898)
Thomas Eakins
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Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important American artists.
A. B. Frost
…the age of fifteen, he worked as an intern at a local business that taught him engraving and lithography. He was mostly self taught but did study under Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, with Gilbert Tucker Margeson in Massachusetts and with William Merritt Chase at the Shinnecock Hills Summer…
Eakins' 1902 Self portrait, now housed at the National Academy of Design in New York City
Eakins at age six
Thomas Eakins House at 1729 Mount Vernon Street, Philadelphia, in 1967. Benjamin Eakins, his father, added the 4th floor in 1874 as a studio for his son.
Max Schmitt in a Single Scull (1871), now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City