Oil on canvas, 28 x 48 inches. Private collection The vista into Franconia Notch from the south became known as the "Artist's View." Boston artist George Albert Frost expands our understanding of the White Mountains with an imaginative interpretation of Franconia Notch. Classically composed, with dark foliage framing the left side of the canvas and an expansive open space in the middle ground, giving way to atmospheric mountains in the distance, the notch is presented as an Arcadian idyll. Franconia Notch's appeal as a subject may reflect that life in the area was still slow-paced. Its virgin landscape was as yet hardly altered by railroads, hotels, and related improvements. Personal life George A. Frost was married in 1882 to Adelia Dunham. They had two sons: Paul Rubens Frost (1883–1957), a notable landscape gardener, and Norman Wentworth Frost, a teacher and charter member of the American Esperanto Club. Exhibits Concord, New Hampshire, Consuming Views: Art and Tourism in the White Mountains, 1850–1900, September 16, 2006 through October 8, 2007, #16 Bibliography . Campbell, Catherine H. New Hampshire Scenery. Canaan, New Hampshire: Phoenix Publishing, 1985. Chadbourne, Janice H. and Karl Gabosh and Charles O. Vogel, ed. The Boston Art Club Exhibition Record, 1873-1909. Madison, Connecticut: Sound View Press, 1991. Consuming Views: Art & Tourism in the White Mountains, 1850–1900. Concord NH: Hanover NH: New Hampshire Historical Society; Distributed by University Press of New England, 2006. Falk, Peter Hastings, ed. Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975. 3 vols. Madison, Connecticut: Sound View Press, 1999. Henderson, John J., "19th Century Artists in the White Mountains of New Hampshire," Heart of New Hampshire, Fall 2005. Henderson, John J. and Roger E. Belson, "Art & Tourism in the White Mountains, 1850-1900," American Art Review, Vol. XIX, No. 2, 2007, 109. Footnotes External links Chronology New Hampshire Historical Society Artwork by George Albert Frost 1843 births 1907 deaths 19th-century American painters American male painters 20th-century American painters American landscape painters Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) alumni Artists from Boston People from Brownfield, Maine 19th-century American male artists 20th-century American male artists Hudson River School painters