The Icebergs: The Civil War and American Art

Dr. Eleanor Jones Harvey, Senior Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and former Dallas Museum of Art curator, places the DMA's iconic painting The Icebergs by Frederic Edwin Church into the larger context of the Civil War. Featured in the SAAM and Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition The Civil War and American Art, The Icebergs helped to illustrate the transformative impact of the war through American art.