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history.com including today's spotlight podcast shipwrecks and sea dogs. When I

was a little boy there was one painting at the Dallas Museum of Art that always

captivated me the icebergs by Frederick Edwin Church from 1861. Church was a

prominent participant in the Hudson River School of American Landscape Painters, creating large,

incredibly detailed and romantic paintings of sweeping landscapes, and the icebergs is no different.

Looking at it, you can feel the cold luminescence of the ice, the forbidding barrenness.

And just at the bottom of the painting, almost out of frame, is the shattered mast of some poor ship. In 1863, two years after the painting was first completed,

Church would add this detail to tap into the tragic tale of British

Captain Sir John Franklin's 1845 failed attempt to map and navigate the Northwest Passage.

Captain and all his men perished in icy Canadian waters,

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