He was a member of the Boston Art Club and best known for paintings of sheep. He lived in New York in 1884 and 1885 and in Massachusetts from 1886 to 1907
He exhibited at the AMC Exhibition of 1877 a work titled Mt. Washington, Jackson.
Newspaper clippings indicate that he was in North Conway in 1875 and Jackson in 1892
Boston Evening Transcript, June 1, 1875, p. 6, c. 5. ART AND ARTISTS.
“George Inness and son, and John A. Monks are at the Kearsarge House, North Conway, sketching in the vicinity.”
Boston Daily Globe, July 24, 1892, p. 26. ART AND ARTISTS.
“J. A. S. Monks is stopping at Jackson, N. H.”
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Reference
Catalog titled “Appalacian Mountain Club, Paintings and Sketches, Exhibited March 14, 1877.”
Independent research by Charles Vogel and Allen Vogel