J. O. J. Frost

John Orne Johnson Frost (January 2, 1852 – November 3, 1928), who signed his deed as J. O. J. Frost, was an upfront 20th-century American folk artist. He began painting at the age of 70, without receiving any formal training. Frost considered himself a historian, not an artist, and his paintings portrayed daily vigor in the fishing village of Marblehead, Massachusetts, during the mid-19th century, as competently as the town's colonial history.

Frost's works are in the collections of the Marblehead Museum in Marblehead, Massachusetts, the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York, the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.