George Albert Frost (1843 to 1907)
George Albert Frost was born in Boston and studied at the Royal Academy of Belgium. He began practicing his art while serving during the Civil War. The Western Union Telegraph expedition of 1865-67 was an ambitious operation to establish a telegraph line from the U.S. to the West Coast of British Columbia and Alaska, to Siberia, and then through Russia to India. Frost accompanied George Kennan on the Siberian detachment of the expedition.
Frost made watercolors in Washington Territory and British Columbia before traveling extensively in Eastern Siberia. He provided illustrations for Kennan’s Tent Life in Siberia, a description of the trip. Frost again accompanied Kennan to Siberia in 1885 on a trip sponsored by Century Magazine and provided illustrations for the two-volume Siberia and the Exile System. He had studio in North Cambridge, Massachusetts and summered in Maine near the Saco river.
Information courtesy of Skinner Inc. May 2003