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The voyage of the icebergs : Frederic Church's Arctic masterpiece / Eleanor Jones Harvey, with contributions by Gerald L. Carr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harvey, Eleanor Jones, author.
- Series:
- Dallas Museum of Art publications.
- Dallas Museum of Art publications
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Icebergs in art.
- Landscape painting, American--19th century.
- Landscape painting, American.
- Lost works of art.
- Icebergs (Church, Frederic Edwin).
- Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900. Icebergs.
- Church, Frederic Edwin.
- Genre:
- Art criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (96 pages) : 52 illustrations (chiefly color), portraits
- Place of Publication:
- Dallas : Dallas Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- "... Frederic Edwin Church, the most successful American landscape painter of his day, debuted his latest "Great Picture"-- a painting titled The North. Despite favorable reviews, the painting failed to find a buyer. Faced with this unexpected setback, Church added a broken mast to the foreground and changed the work's title to The Icebergs. He then shipped the painting to London, where it was finally sold to an English railroad magnate and subsequently disappeared from view for 116 years. This book tells the fascinating story of The Icebergs and provides a detailed look at the cycle of fame, neglect, and resuscitation of both this masterwork and Church's career. In 1979, The Icebergs sold at auction for $2.5 million, at the time the highest amount ever paid for an American painting. The sale coincided with an upswing in the popularity and acclaim accorded to American landscape painting, catalyzing the market for American art and contributing to a revival in the prestige of Church and the Hudson River School. Drawing on extensive interviews with many of the people involved with the painting's rediscovery, sale, and eventual donation to the Dallas Museum of Art, the author considers the way marketing has defined The Icebergs"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Director's foreword / John R. Lane
- The icebergs revisited: a personal perspective / Gerald L. Carr
- The north
- The tip of the icebergs / Eleanor Jones Harvey
- The other seven-eighths / Eleanor Jones Harvey
- Early documentation of the icebergs / Gerald L. Carr.
- Notes:
- Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on August 17, 2020).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-96).
- ISBN:
- 9780300256727
- 0300256728
- OCLC:
- 1184102524
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