Icebergs at Sea, Canada
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826â1900
June-July 1859
Medium
seascapes
Classification
seascapes
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Louis P. Church
Accession Number
1917-4-294-b
About this artwork
Seascape sketches including one large-scale and two small-scale views of icebergs at sea off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Dominating the composition at upper center, the largest sketch shows a massive, mostly rectangular iceberg with a vein of green ice at left. It floats on dark blue ocean waters below a greyish-blue overcast sky. At lower left, another iceberg is shown floating on dark waters--this one featuring a prominent, sharp peak at right descending to a flatter portio...