Steven Stern Fine Arts · Los Angeles
We buy John Frost paintings
Do you own a painting by John Frost (1890–1937), the Pasadena Impressionist of the California desert, the Sierra Nevada and the San Gabriel Valley, or are you settling an estate that includes one? Steven Stern Fine Arts, a third-generation dealer in Early California painting, would like to see it. Every inquiry gets a confidential evaluation, and there is no obligation to sell.
Wondering what it might be worth? Read How much is a John Frost painting worth?
Featured works
John Frost paintings from the gallery
La Cañada
Sold by Steven Stern Fine Arts
San Gabriel Foothills
Sold by Steven Stern Fine Arts
Desert Bloom
Sold by Steven Stern Fine Arts
Desert Wash
Sold by Steven Stern Fine Arts
Why owners call us
An Early California specialist for your Frost
We know his work
The gallery has handled John Frost's paintings for years, from desert views below San Jacinto to spring wildflowers at La Cañada and oaks in the San Gabriel foothills.
Confidential evaluation
Steven Stern, a third-generation dealer, reviews every inquiry personally. Owner names, buyer names and prices are never made public, and an inquiry does not commit you to sell.
Purchase or consignment
The gallery can buy your Frost outright, take it on consignment, or arrange a private sale, depending on what suits the painting and you.
The process
How a John Frost sale works
Send photographs
The front, the whole back and the signature, plus any title, place name, date or label on the reverse.
Confidential evaluation
We look at subject, size, condition and history, and where the painting sits in Frost's short career.
Choose a route
We explain purchase, consignment and private sale for your painting; the decision is yours.
Viewing
For an important Frost or a group of works, the gallery can arrange to see it in person.
More from the gallery
Other John Frost paintings we have handled
Eaton Canyon
Sold by Steven Stern Fine Arts
Desert Clouds
Sold by Steven Stern Fine Arts
The Slopes of the Sierras
Available through Steven Stern Fine Arts View at californiapaintings.com
Who collects John Frost?
John Frost is collected above all by collectors of California Impressionism and Early California painting. Trained in Paris and a painting companion of his father's friend Guy Rose, he applied a refined Impressionist palette to the California desert, the Sierra Nevada and the foothills of the San Gabriel Valley around Pasadena, where he settled about 1919. His career was short and repeatedly interrupted by tuberculosis, so his paintings are not plentiful.
The gallery page, the biography and the seller FAQ give more background.
Selling other Early California paintings too? Visit the gallery's main site, californiapaintings.com.