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The Icebergs, detail

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Description: The Icebergs, detail
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Description: The Voyage of the Icebergs: Frederic Church’s Arctic Masterpiece
~The artist applied the finishing touches to his masterful presentation in the accompanying broadside (fig. 16). That text is reprinted here in full for the first time. Each paragraph is paired with the corresponding details of the painting, to provide a simulacrum of the original viewers’ experience of The Icebergs.
PublisherDallas Museum of Art
Related print edition pages: pp.28-43
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00204.002
Description: 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...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.87-121
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00051.007

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