1866
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
The Coast of Labrador is a 1866 oil by William Bradford, a American Impressionism work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
The Coast of Labrador is a painting of a rocky shoreline with icebergs in the distance. It shows a lot of detail and light. The artist spent a lot of time in Labrador, which inspired his work. He first visited between 1854 and 1857, but it wasn't until 1861 that he started painting it regularly. He returned to Labrador many times over the next eight years. Check out the work of artist William Bradford.
William Bradford devoted the bulk of his career to painting Arctic scenes like The Coast of Labrador . Rendered in minute detail and suffused with light, the artist’s Arctic compositions share stylistic motifs with John Frederick Kensett ’s Luminist views of the Rhode Island coast. Bradford first traveled to Labrador between 1854 and 1857; it was not until 1861, however, that the region became his main source of inspiration. He returned to Labrador repeatedly over the next eight years. Signed and dated 1866, this painting probably derives from a number of sketches he accumulated during an…
Henry H. Brooks, Boston, by 1981; Alfred J. Walker, Boston, 1981; Vose Galleries, Boston, 1981; Alfred T. Morris, Providence, Rhode Island, 1981; Adams Davidson Galleries, Washington, DC, 1983; Marshall Field, Chicago, 1983; the Art Institute of Chicago, 1983.
A Record of Sharing (Art Institute of Chicago, 1984), 21 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1983–1984 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1984), 37, fig. 30. Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Little, Brown and Company, 1988), 86 (ill.). Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 202–04, no. 93. Richard C. Kugler, William Bradford: Sailing Ships and Arctic Seas (University of Washington Press, 2003), 14–15, fig. 11.
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William Bradford (April 30, 1823 – April 25, 1892) was an American romanticist painter, photographer and explorer, originally from Fairhaven, Massachusetts, near New Bedford.
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