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Drawing, Icebergs Under Cloudy Skies
This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated June or July 1859 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is brush and oil paint, graphite on buff paperboard. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
“Every curve, swell and depression have the finish of the most exquisite sculpture, and all drips with silvery water as if newly risen from the deep,” records Noble as he and Church approached an iceberg off Fogo, Newfoundland towering above their ship. Church revered the sheer monumentality of the icebergs, referring to their forms as “ice-architecture.”
This object was
donated by
Louis P. Church.
It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.
- Plasticeberg
- poster.
- Courtesy of Jorge Gamboa, first presented at La Bienal del Cartel Bolivia....
- NATURE.043
Its dimensions are
30.5 × 50.8 cm (12 × 20 in.) Mat: 55.9 × 71.1 cm (22 × 28 in.) Frame: 59.3 × 74.9 × 2.5 cm (23 3/8 × 29 1/2 × 1 in.)
It has the following markings
Stamp in black ink, lower left (Lugt 457c): Museum for the Arts of Decoration Cooper Union
Cite this object as
Drawing, Icebergs Under Cloudy Skies; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; brush and oil paint, graphite on buff paperboard; 30.5 × 50.8 cm (12 × 20 in.) Mat: 55.9 × 71.1 cm (22 × 28 in.) Frame: 59.3 × 74.9 × 2.5 cm (23 3/8 × 29 1/2 × 1 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-305-a
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition After Icebergs.
