Artist:
Arthur Burdett Frost
(American, 1851 - 1928)
Hunter, Kangaroo and Snake
Medium: Pen and ink on paper
Date: n.d.
Dimensions:
6 3/4 × 8 1/4 in. (17.1 × 21 cm)
Accession number: 82.16.100
Curatorial RemarksArthur Burdett Frost was a major force in the development of comic papers and the strip cartoon that conveys a story by images. "Hunter, Kangaroo, and Snake" chronicles the antics of a man-eating snake in three drawings. Frost depicted his subjects in a variety of comical positions and with attitudes and gestures designed to amuse. He had a predilection for caricatures and specialized in rural types-lanky, rumpled characters, with striking heads of shaggy hair and large unruly beards. Animals were similarly parodied.