The Master of Motion: The Life and Legacy of A. B. Frost In the golden twilight of the nineteenth century, an era defined by the rapid pulse of American industrialization and a burgeoning fascination with visual storytelling, Arthur Burdett Frost emerged as a virtuoso of the line. Born in Philadelphia in 1851, Frost was a man whose artistic soul was forged in the meticulous traditions of lithography and engraving. While many of his contemporaries sought the static grandeur of classical portraiture, Frost found his calling in the ephemeral—the split-second movement of a hunting dog, the comed…