Tag: Greenland

The frozen north painted by Carl (Jens Erik Carl) Rasmussen. Looks mighty nippy, too what with all that ice. A Danish artist, he lived from 1841 to 1893. He is best known for his marine art and views of Greenland.

Kornerup on the ice: Midst of Greenland’s ice sheet, open crevasses expose their depths turning from white to dark blue and even black – up there stands a group of men. They have a traction sledge, a tent and a Primus stove, resting in between two impressive abyssal cracks. No sledge tracks are to be seen around; not a clue of where they came from, not either where they shall go. Early 1890s. Danish. Carl Rasmussen, painter (1841-1893). Image © and collections of the Nuuk Museum, Greenland. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.nuukkunstmuseum.com/en/behind-the-art/j-e-c-rasmussen-1841-1893/
Expedition to East Greenland: A depiction of Captain Gustav Frederik Holm standing in the exploration boat in Hekla Harbour on Denmark Island, Greenland in 1884 during the Umiak Expedition. The view is in Scoresby Sound facing East with Jameson Peninsula in the distance. Captain Holm is standing in a “Konebaad”, a large vessel with sealskins stretched over a bone or wooden frame, large enough to carry up to 10 passengers including provisions. 1891. Danish. Oil on canvas. Carl Rasmussen, painter (1841-1893). Initialed and dated JECR 1891 on the lower right. Image © Uno Langmann. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.langmann.com/expedition-to-east-greenland-by-carl-jens-erik-c-rasmussen

Visions of the Arctic from back when it was the last frontier. Plates from Bernard O’Reilly’s work “Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific Ocean, illustrated in a voyage to Davis’s strait, during the summer of 1817” with the illustrations made from drawings by the author. Published in 1818 in London by Baldwin, Craddock and Joy. In the collections of the State Library of Alaska and the Library of the Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Seal Hunting. Page 105, p. 80. Engraving after a drawing by Bernard O’Reilly. Collections of the State Library of Alaska. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/greenlandadjacen00orei/page/n104/mode/1up
Uskee male and female with their child. Page 112, p. 85. Engraving after a drawing by Bernard O’Reilly. Collections of the State Library of Alaska. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/greenlandadjacen00orei/page/n111/mode/1up
Canis Lagopus. (Vulpes lagopus, the Arctic fox). Page 130. Engraving after a drawing by Bernard O’Reilly. Collections of the State Library of Alaska. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/greenlandadjacen00orei/page/n130/mode/1up
Ursus maritimus (polar bear). Page 133. Engraving after a drawing by Bernard O’Reilly. Collections of the State Library of Alaska. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/greenlandadjacen00orei/page/n133/mode/1up
Larus Maximus. Page 179. Engraving after a drawing by Bernard O’Reilly. Plate from Bernard O’Reilly’s work Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific Ocean, illustrated in a voyage to Davis’s strait, during the summer of 1817. Collections of the Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/greenlandadjacen00orei/page/n179/mode/1up

Visions of an Arctic that looks a little different now taken from Bernard O’Reilly’s work “Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific Ocean, illustrated in a voyage to Davis’s strait, during the summer of 1817” with the illustrations made from drawings by the author. Published in 1818 in London. In the collections of the State Library of Alaska and the Library of the Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Views of Greenland after passing Cape Farewell: Views of Land near Joris Bay (upper image); Land near Baal’s River (center image); Reep Kolle? (not legible, lower image). Page 42. Plate I. Engraving after a drawing by Bernard O’Reilly. Collections of the State Library of Alaska. In the public domain due to age. via https://library.alaska.gov/hist/hist_docs/docs/asl_G650_1817_06.pdf
Disko at Fortune Bay with Cirrus Radiation. Plate 3, Page 63. Collections of and digitalized by the Library of the Marine Biological Library and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/greenlandadjacen00orei/page/n63/mode/1up
Disko near Lievely with Parhelion. Plate IV, Page 67. Collections of and digitalized by the Library of the Marine Biological Library and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In the public domain due to age https://archive.org/details/greenlandadjacen00orei/page/n67/mode/1up
Seal Hunting. Page 104. Plate 80. Engraving after a drawing by Bernard O’Reilly. Collections of the State Library of Alaska. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/greenlandadjacen00orei/page/n104/mode/1up
Canis Lagopus (arctic fox). Page 130. Engraving after a drawing by Bernard O’Reilly. Collections of the State Library of Alaska. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/greenlandadjacen00orei/page/n130/mode/1up
Ursus Maritimus (polar bear). Page 133. Engraving after a drawing by Bernard O’Reilly. Collections of the State Library of Alaska. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/greenlandadjacen00orei/page/n133/mode/1up

Landscapes filled with ice by Greenland artist Alibak Johansen who also painted portraits. Living from 1921 to 2007 he studied art in Denmark.

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Greenlandic bay in blue and white. 1962. Signed and dated on the lower right. © Estate of the artist. Image © 2015 SHOP4ARTEFACT. Fair use license. via https://www.shop4artefact.com/groenlandske-motiver.html

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Landscape. 1969. Signed and dated on the lower right. © Estate of the artist. Image © 2000-2020 askART. Fair use license. via https://www.askart.com/auction_records/Alibak_Johansen/11235804/Alibak_Johansen.aspx#

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Scene fra Jacobshavn, Grønland. 1968. Watercolor and ink on paper. Signed and dated on the lower right. © Estate of the artist. Image © 2020 – banghaus Print-Online-Auktions GmbH. Fair use license. via https://www.pegasus-finearts.dk/lot/21405

Paintings of life at the top of the world just a bit back. Danish. Harald Viggo Moltke, artist. Living from 1871 to 1960 he was also an author, explorer, and served as a draftsman on four Arctic expeditions.

"Polareskimoer på vandring" (Polar Eskimoes Wandering). 1903.
“Polareskimoer på vandring” (Polar Eskimoes Wandering). 1903. Made in connection with polar explorer Knud Rasmussen’s Danish Literary Greenland Expedition in 1902 to 1904, the aim of which was to discover and collect the Inuit’s myths and their understanding of the world. Image © Nuuk Kunstmuseum, Nuuk, Greenland. Fair use license. via http://www.nuukkunstmuseum.com/en/artist-of-the-month/harald-moltke-1871-1960/

"A Study for a composition depicting participants in an expedition to Greenland."
“A Study for a composition depicting participants in an expedition to Greenland.” No date. Oil on canvas laid on panel. Image © 2019 MutualArt Services, Inc. Fair use license. via https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/A-Study-for-a-composition-depicting-part/D7F9AEFE9C798CC7

"A Sealer's Wife carrying her child on her Back." No date.
“A Sealer’s Wife carrying her child on her Back.” No date. Oil on canvas. Image ©2019 Artnet Worldwide Corporation. Fair use license. via http://www.artnet.com/artists/harald-viggo-moltke/a-sealers-wife-carrying-her-child-on-her-back-d0VBLQHERzVcpMO83pieAQ2

"Sealers watching an Umiak in a Greenlandic Fjord." No date.
“Sealers watching an Umiak in a Greenlandic Fjord.” No date. Image © 2015 – 2019 BIDTOART. Fair use license. via https://bidtoart.com/en/fine-art/sealers-watching-an-umiak-in-a-greenlandic-fiord/3915813

Watercolors of life in a different Greenland. ca. 1899. Isak of Igdlorpait, artist (1866-1903). An Inuit Greenlander who had lost the use of one arm which kept him from fishing and hunting, Isak tended goats at a Moravian mission. When the mission was abandoned in 1901, he presented a booklet with 48 watercolors as a gift to the last departing missionary. These are taken from the website of rarebookstudio.com, some of whose books, though not this one, I had the privilege of seeing at the antiquarian book fair here held last month.

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Hunting. Page 11. Image © 2013 Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio. Fair use license. via http://rarebookstudio.com/images/Isak-p-11.jpg

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Watercolor. Image © 2013 Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio and ABAA. Fair use license. via https://www.abaa.org/book/1015462419

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Watercolor. Image © 2013 Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio and ABAA. Fair use license. via https://www.abaa.org/book/1015462419

Watercolor.
Watercolor. Image © 2013 Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio and ABAA. Fair use license. via https://www.abaa.org/book/1015462419

Watercolor.
Watercolor. Image © 2013 Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio and ABAA. Fair use license. via https://www.abaa.org/book/1015462419