Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928)
Hen's Friend, the Bear, 1916
signed "A B Frost" lower right
watercolor and gouache, 15 1/4 by 13 1/4 in.
"Every day Absalom strove to hibernate, and each time Henry found his hiding place and yanked him out."A.B. Frost created this drawing as an illustration for the story "Hen's Friend the Bear," which appeared in "American Magazine" in 1916.

Provenance: The Estate of the Artist
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Sale 3834, lot 405, January 29, 1976
The Estate of Ann Dickinson Dale

Literature: Hugh S. Fullerton, "Hen's Friend the Bear," "American Magazine," July 1916, p. 22, illustrated.

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