Exhibition of arctic paintings from 19th and 20th centuries
The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts has an exhibition called To the Ends of the Earth: Painting the Polar Landscape. New Scientist has a 14 images from the show. Beautiful. Shown here: "The Ice Dwellers Watching the Invaders" (around 1875) by William Bradford.
To the Ends of the Earth: Painting the Polar Landscape
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