Labrador Coast

Artist
William Bradford
Year
c. 1860
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
Unframed: 46 × 76.5 cm (18 1/8 × 30 1/8 in.)

Icebergs glow against a low northern sky above a cold, still sea. William Bradford — the only American painter to travel to the Arctic in his own ship — made a career of the polar landscape, and this wide canvas captures the strange, luminous beauty of the Labrador coast with the unflinching eye of a man who had seen it at first hand.