Frederic Edwin Church's Beautiful Pantings of Icebergs Between Labrador and Greenland, 1859 – 1861
Frederic Edwin Church’s Beautiful Pantings of Icebergs Between Labrador and Greenland, 1859 – 1861 In the summer of 1859, American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900) took trip aboard a schooner to Newfoundland and Labrador to observe icebergs. Louis Legrand Noble wrote up the excursion in the book After Icebergs with a Painter. In 1861, at the outbreak of the Civil War, Church exhibited Icebergs: The North at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. The Icebergs is a superb example of Frederic Edwin Church’s technical skill and clever marketing. The seductively inviting colors...
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