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Icebergs | Frederic Edwin Church | 1861

Icebergs | Frederic Edwin Church | 1861

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"Icebergs" by Frederic Edwin Church, painted in 1861, is a stunning portrayal of the majestic and awe-inspiring ice formations of the Arctic. Church's meticulous attention to detail brings these frozen giants to life, with towering icebergs rising dramatically from the frigid waters. The play of light and shadow on the icy surfaces creates a mesmerizing array of colors, from brilliant whites to deep blues and greens. The vastness of the Arctic landscape is palpable, with the icebergs stretching out into the distance against a backdrop of open sea and sky. "Icebergs" invites viewers to immerse themselves in the serene yet formidable beauty of this untouched wilderness, capturing a moment of timeless grandeur in the heart of the Arctic seas.

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  • Title The Icebergs (originally exhibited as The North)
  • Artist Frederic Edwin Church (American Hudson River School landscape painter; Hartford, Connecticut, 4 May 1826 - New York, 7 April 1900; pupil of Thomas Cole)
  • Year of creation 1861 (one of Church's "Great Pictures," developed from his 1859 schooner voyage to the North Atlantic around Newfoundland and Labrador with the Reverend Louis Legrand Noble, who chronicled the trip in his 1861 book After Icebergs with a Painter. Church based the studio painting on nearly one hundred pencil and oil sketches. The work was first exhibited in New York City in late April 1861, twelve days after the outbreak of the American Civil War, under the title The North; visitors paid 25 cents' admittance to the one-painting show. Despite favorable reviews, the painting failed to sell at home, so Church added the broken ship's mast in the foreground — interpreted as a memorial to the lost 1845 Franklin Expedition that had attempted the Northwest Passage — retitled it The Icebergs and shipped it to London, where it was acquired by the British railway magnate Sir Edward William Watkin and installed at his country house, Rose Hill, near Manchester. It then disappeared from view for 116 years, before reappearing at Sotheby's New York in 1979, where it was auctioned for $2.5 million — at that time the highest sum ever paid for an American painting. The buyers, businessman Lamar Hunt and his wife Norma, donated it to the Dallas Museum of Art. The composition pairs Church's careful on-site Arctic observations with his imagination: seductively inviting colors, a glowing subterranean light, and glossy tactile ice surfaces draw the viewer's eye toward what is in fact an inhospitable place of mortal danger, the wreckage of the foreground mast hinting at the human cost of Arctic exploration)
  • Technique/Medium Oil on canvas
  • Original dimensions 163.8 x 285.7 cm (64 ½ x 112 ½ inches)
  • Collection/Museum Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas (gift of Norma and Lamar Hunt, 1979; on display in the American Art Galleries, 19th Century)

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