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The Voyage of the Icebergs: Frederic Church's Arctic Masterpiece |  | Authors: Eleanor Jones Harvey, Eleanor Jones Harvey
Creator: Gerald L. Carr
Publisher: Dallas Museum of Art
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 330159
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 112
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 9.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 0300095368
Dewey Decimal Number: 759.13
EAN: 9780300095364
ASIN: 0300095368
Publication Date: September 1, 2002
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Product Description
Twelve days after the onset of the American Civil War in April of 1861, 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 beautiful 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. This book accompanies an exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art from September 8, 2002 until January 15, 2003.
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 The Voyage of the Icebergs: Frederic Church's Arctic Masterpiece July 8, 2005
Tracy Cobb (Tucson, AZ)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a truly amazing piece of art. To truly appreciate it you need to see it in person as one can sit for hours in front of it. But it's story is also amazing - laying hidden away for decades. Forgotten. Love the art. Love the book. If you love American art, this is a must have book. And if you are ever in Dallas, please go see it in person at the Dallas Museum of Art.
 Just the icebergs April 8, 2005
ADM Cosh (Michigan USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you want to know about Fredric Church's Iceberg paintings, this is the book. Other than a little background on the artist, this doesn't say much about anything else. Almost every page has excellent color prints.
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