SOLD Icebound Sealer Under Winter Sun
by William Bradford (1823–1892)18 x 30 inches
Signed lower left: BRADFORD
Provenance
Dr. and Mrs. S. Andrew Kulin, Waltham, Massachusetts
Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, New York
Private collection, acquired from above
Sale, Heritage, Dallas, Texas, November 17, 2023, lot 67075, from above
Exhibited
William Bradford 1823–1892, deCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, November 2–December 28, 1969; New Bedford Whaling Museum, Massachusetts, January 11–February 15, 1970
Literature
William Bradford 1823–1892 (Lincoln, MA: deCordova Museum, 1969), 45, no. 30.
Related Works
Whalers Working through the Ice on the Coast of Greenland under the Midnight Sun, oil on canvas, 23¾ × 39¾ inches; Denver Art Museum, Colorado
Caught In the Ice Floes (Melville Bay/Greenland Coast), after 1870, oil on canvas, 21¾ x 35¾ inches; Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
An Arctic Summer: Boring Through the Pack in Melville Bay, 1871, oil on canvas, 51¾ x 78 inches, signed and dated lower right; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Arctic Sunset, 1874, oil on canvas, 20¼ x 30¼ inches, signed and dated lower right; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Note: With this work, William Bradford conveys the dramatic scale of the Arctic region, a subject the artist portrayed throughout his career.
Artist Biography
By Jenny Lyubomudrova
I. Biography
II. Chronology
III. Collections
IV. Exhibitions
V. Memberships
VI. Notes
VII. Suggested Resources
I. Biography
William Bradford is known as one of the preeminent maritime painters of the nineteenth century. He began his career painting whaleships in the port of New Bedford, quickly garnering a reputation for his talent in depicting naval architecture with incredible accuracy. His journeys to northern locations such as Grand Manan and the Bay of Fundy, followed by his numerous expeditions to the Arctic, established him as the “Painter of the Polar World” and brought him international acclaim.
Bradford was born on April 30, 1823 in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. A descendent of
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