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Frederic Edwin Church: The Icebergs  wikidata:Q575573 reasonator:Q575573
Artist
Frederic Edwin Church  (1826–1900)  wikidata:Q366212
 
Frederic Edwin Church
Alternative names
Frederick Edwin Church
Description American painter, landscape painter, art collector and traveler
Date of birth/death 4 May 1826 Edit this at Wikidata 7 April 1900 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Hartford New York City
Work location
Catskill; New York City; Ecuador; Colombia; Petra; Rome; Colony of Jamaica; Mexico; Olana State Historic Site; Jamaica Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q366212
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Title
English: The Icebergs
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre landscape art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
The largest of Frederic Edwin Church's paintings of icebergs. Will be on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum through April 2013, followed by an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through September 2013, when it will be returned to the Dallas Museum of Art (see image source below).
Date 1861
date QS:P571,+1861-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 163.8 cm (64.5 in); width: 285.7 cm (112.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,163.83U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,285.75U174728
institution QS:P195,Q745866
Current location
Currently (through April 2013) on display at:
institution QS:P195,Q1192305
Accession number
1979.28
Place of creation United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
Object history
Credit line Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Norma and Lamar Hunt
Inscriptions [on iceberg at bottom left] F. E. Church 1861
References Dallas Museum of Arts collection
Source/Photographer Dallas Museum of Art Uncrated
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