Iceberg and Ice Flower, Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, Gift of Louis P. Church
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 East 91st Street
New York, NY
In 1859, the American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church traveled by ship to Newfoundland to observe icebergs. On the 160th anniversary of his expedition, After Icebergs presents a selection of sketches and studies made by Church that document his first-hand impressions of these majestic forms of floating ice.
