Icebergs in the Distance, Canada
date: label: Date
content: June–July 1859
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Seascape sketch showing a view of three distant icebergs floating on the open ocean beneath a tumultuous and colorful cloudy sky, somewhere near the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The ocean's brownish-blue waters extend to the horizon, where they are more brightly colored in a shade of light blue. On the horizon at far left, three craggy icebergs are rendered in a shade of creamy yellow and separated by equal distances. Above, a grey, cloudy sky is partially colored pink by the light of the rising or setting sun. Paint is freely and expressively applied throughout.
place: label: made in
content: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
label: place depicted
content: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-667
objectType: label: Type
content: seascapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite on paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 18.1 x 25.6 cm (7 1/8 x 10 1/16 in.)