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Seascape with Icecap in the Distance
Frederic Edwin Church1859
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Study of sea and sky with a suggestion of an ice cap or ice flow on the horizon at center right. Paint is freely applied over a cream base color. Unfinished at lower edge.
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Details
- Title: Seascape with Icecap in the Distance
- Creator: Frederic Edwin Church
- Creator Lifespan: 1826/1900
- Date Created: 1859
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium: Brush and oil paint, graphite on paperboard.
- Provenance: Given by Louis P. Church
- Paper Support: Paperboard
- Exhibitions: SITES - Close Observation, Selected Oil Sketches by Frederic E. Church. 1978-1980
- Dimensions: Sheet: 18.1 x 25.6 cm (7 1/8 x 10 1/16 in.)Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)Frame H x W x D: 39.7 x 50.2 x 2.5 cm (15 5/8 x 19 3/4 x 1 in.)
- Bibliography: Dee, Elaine Evans. "Close Observation, Selected Oil Sketches by Frederic E. Church" p.71, catalogue no. 39.
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