Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Nature by Design: After Icebergs
November 16, 2019 – March 13, 2020
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.
Iceberg and Ice Flower, Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, Gift of Louis P. Church
