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John Orne Johnson Frost

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John Orne Johnson Frost (1852 - 1928) was active/lived in Massachusetts.  John Frost is known for Naive marine and historical genre painting.

A leading folk painter of nautical subjects, Jonathan Orne Frost was born in the whaling and shipping town of Marblehead, Massachusetts. At age 16, he went to sea, but two years later, he opened a restaurant, which he operated for the remainder of his working life.

After his wife died, he became interested in art and sketched a fishing boat off the Grand Banks. From 1923 to 1928, he did over eighty oil paintings, recreating the history of the town from the first settlers in 1625 through the Revolution.

His paintings are filled with activity and a feeling of vibrant life accented by his frenetic lines and bright colors. In 1926, he opened his own gallery but he sold only a few of his works. The exhibitions of his work by the Marblehead Historical Society drew attention to the artist, as did a Smithsonian Exhibition in 1953.

Note: The following is from Pamela Milette, third cousin of the artist.

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17 Book References for John Orne Johnson Frost
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1990 Rosenak, Chuck and Jan Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of 20th Century Folk Art and Artists 416 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Rumford, Beatrix American Folk Paintings Paintings and Drawings Other Than Portraits 449 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1983 Johnson, Jay; William Ketchum American Folk Art of the Twentieth Century 342 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Lipman, Jean and Tom Armstrong American Folk Painters of Three Centuries 233 Yes
1975 Ebert, John and Katherine American Folk Painters 225 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1973 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1971 Goodrich, Lloyd/Mary Black What Is American in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1968 Brewington, M V and Dorothy The Marine Paintings and Drawings in the Peabody Museum 530 Yes
1966 Black, Mary/Jean Lipman American Folk Painting 244 Yes
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