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TitleAdvertisement for “The Heart of the Andes” and ”The Icebergs”, from the New York Morning Express

Creator name (description)Unknown

Creator nationality/cultureUnknown

Creator rolePublisher

Creation date1861

Creation date (description)April 29, 1861

Object typePeriodical

MaterialsUnknown

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LocationNew York Morning Express, April 29, 1861, negative no. 89410d, New-York Historical Society

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsAdvertisingLandscape painting, American--19th centuryArt--ExhibitionsHudson River school of landscape painting

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The Tip of The Icebergs

Eleanor Jones Harvey

The Voyage of the Icebergs: Frederic Church’s Arctic Masterpiece

In May 1862 Frederic Edwin Church had a problem. His latest “Great Picture,” a six-by-nine-foot canvas called The North—now known as The Icebergs—had failed to find a buyer, after being shown first in New York and then in Boston. As he had done with great success before,...

Author

Eleanor Jones Harvey

PublisherDallas Museum of Art

Related print edition pages: pp.45-69

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00204.003

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20130&redirecttoanchor=22368

Chapter subject tags:Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900. IcebergsPolar regions--Discovery and explorationArtists' preparatory studiesAdvertisingWatkin, E. W. (Edward William), Sir, 1819-1901

The Icebergs Revisited: A Personal Perspective

Gerald L. Carr

The Voyage of the Icebergs: Frederic Church’s Arctic Masterpiece

Frederic Edwin Church’s great painting The Icebergs (fig. 1), the subject of this book, affirms this epigraph. The story of The Icebergs is a kaleidoscope—of talent, adventure, and eye-popping spectacle; of science, colonialism, and multinational wishful thinking...

Author

Gerald L. Carr

PublisherDallas Museum of Art

Related print edition pages: pp.11-27

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00204.001

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20128&redirecttoanchor=22368

Chapter subject tags:Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900. IcebergsPolar regions--Discovery and explorationUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865Art auctions

4. Uncertain Passages

Jennifer Raab

Frederic Church: The Art and Science of Detail

In 1859, the year both the Heart of the Andes and The Origin of Species appeared, Frederic Church traveled to the Newfoundland and Labrador coasts to sketch (fig. 38). The terrain was constantly shifting, as glaciers and icebergs remade the map. Explorers embarked to...

Author

Jennifer Raab

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.87-121

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00051.007

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16232&redirecttoanchor=22368

Chapter subject tags:Polar regions--Discovery and explorationUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848Melville, Herman, 1819-1891Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900. Icebergs

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