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Drawing, Iceberg Under Cloudy Skies, Canada
This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated June–July 1859 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is brush and oil paint, graphite on tan paperboard. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
“I know of no object in all nature so marvelously sensitive to a steady gaze,” writes Noble. Constantly in motion, icebergs permeate the boundary between ocean and sky. Church observed icebergs dazzling in the sun, adopting the hues of the world around them as light played upon their surfaces. Bands of translucent ice formed by cracks in the glacier shimmered as sapphire and turquoise veins.
This object was
donated by
Louis P. Church.
It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.
Its dimensions are
30.5 × 51 cm (12 × 20 1/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Stamped in black ink, lower left: L.457c; verso lower center: L.457d; in brown ink, verso lower center: L.457e
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite, verso lower left: Presented 1917 / By Mr Louis P Church 309
Cite this object as
Drawing, Iceberg Under Cloudy Skies, Canada; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; brush and oil paint, graphite on tan paperboard; 30.5 × 51 cm (12 × 20 1/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-305-b
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition After Icebergs.
