The Icebergs

Frederic Edwin Church's 'The Icebergs' (1861–1863), based on sketches made during a long voyage into the Labrador Sea, is a monumental seascape of turquoise water at the foot of a towering blue-white iceberg, with a broken ship's mast in the foreground hinting at the fragility of human endeavour. Gifted anonymously to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1980, it is one of the great icons of American 19th-century landscape painting.

Exhibition Venue

Dallas Museum of Art

Dallas, United States