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List of illustrations

  • The Icebergs
  • Portrait of Frederic Edwin Church
  • Olana
  • Advertisement for the London debut of The Icebergs
  • Niagara
  • The Heart of the Andes
  • Aurora Borealis
  • Déluge de nord de l'Europe
  • Advertisement for “The Heart of the Andes” and ”The Icebergs”, from the New York Morning Express
  • Portrait of Edward William Watkin
  • Rose Hill, Northenden, near Manchester, exterior from the southwest
  • Cover illustration of David C. Huntington, The Landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church: Vision of an American Era
  • Niagara Falls, from the American Side
  • Frederic Edwin Church's "The Icebergs" on view at Sotheby's Parke Bernet
  • Frederic Edwin Church's "The Icebergs" on view at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
  • The North. Painted by F. E. Church, from Studies of Icebergs made in the Northern Seas, in the Summer of 1859
  • The Icebergs
  • The Icebergs, detail
  • The Icebergs, detail
  • The Icebergs, detail
  • The Icebergs, detail
  • The Icebergs, detail
  • The Icebergs
  • Icebergs, July 1, 1859
  • Seascape
  • Iceberg, Battle Harbour, Labrador
  • Floating Icebergs
  • Floating Icebergs
  • Icebergs, Twillingate
  • Iceberg against Evening Sky
  • Icebergs at Midnight, Labrador
  • Floating Iceberg
  • Twilight in the Wilderness
  • Study for The Icebergs
  • Icebergs and Wreck in Sunset
  • Study for The Icebergs
  • The Icebergs, final study
  • Frontispiece for Louis Legrand Noble, After Icebergs with a Painter
  • Ice Falling from a Lofty Berg from Louis Legrand Noble, After Icebergs with a Painter
  • Advertisement for “The Heart of the Andes” and ”The Icebergs”, from the New York Morning Express
  • The North. Painted by F. E. Church, from Studies of Icebergs made in the Northern Seas, in the Summer of 1859
  • Dr. Isaac Hayes
  • Oosisoak
  • Church's Peak
  • The Schooner United States
  • Aurora Borealis
  • The Icebergs (The North)
  • Rose Hill, Northenden, near Manchester, main staircase showing the wall (left) on which Frederic Edwin Church's "The Icebergs" hung
  • Mair Baulch standing next to Frederic Edwin Church's "The Icebergs" outside Rose Hill, Northenden, Manchester
  • New England Landscape
  • The Jolly Flatboatmen
  • John L. Marion, chairman of Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, auctioning Frederic Edwin Church's The Icebergs
  • Rubens Peale with Geranium
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Description: The Voyage of the Icebergs: Frederic Church’s Arctic Masterpiece
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PublisherDallas Museum of Art
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Description: The Voyage of the Icebergs: Frederic Church’s Arctic Masterpiece
~The unexpected but extremely welcome gift of Frederic Edwin Church’s The Icebergs in 1979 was a defining moment in the history of the Dallas Museum of Art. The sale of the painting at auction electrified the art world, and its subsequent donation to the DMA brought the Museum worldwide attention. Then as now, Church’s Icebergs is one of...
PublisherDallas Museum of Art
Description: 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...
PublisherDallas Museum of Art
Related print edition pages: pp.11-27
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00204.001

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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

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Description: 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,...
PublisherDallas Museum of Art
Related print edition pages: pp.45-69
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00204.003

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Description: The Voyage of the Icebergs: Frederic Church’s Arctic Masterpiece
During the final quarter of the nineteenth century, the Hudson River School of painting fell out of favor, replaced by a new generation of popular artists and styles...
PublisherDallas Museum of Art
Related print edition pages: pp.71-86
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00204.004

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