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William Bradford devoted the bulk of his career to painting Arctic scenes like The Coast of Labrador<\/em>. Rendered in minute detail and suffused with light, the artist\u2019s Arctic compositions share stylistic motifs with John Frederick Kensett<\/a>\u2019s Luminist views of the Rhode Island coast. Bradford first traveled to Labrador between 1854 and 1857; it was not until 1861, however, that the region became his main source of inspiration. He returned to Labrador repeatedly over the next eight years. Signed and dated 1866, this painting probably derives from a number of sketches he accumulated during an 1865 journey, and it attests to Bradford\u2019s interest in the diverse light effects and rocky landscape of the Arctic.<\/p>\n","short_description":null,"dimensions":"72 \u00d7 113.3 cm (28 3\/8 \u00d7 44 5\/8 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":113,"height":72,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Signed and dated lower right: \"Wm Bradford\/1866\"","credit_line":"Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"A Record of Sharing<\/em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1984), 21 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1983\u20131984<\/em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1984), 37, fig. 30.\n\nMaster Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago<\/em> (Little, Brown and Company, 1988), 86 (ill.).\n\nJudith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I<\/em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 202\u201304, no. 93.\n\nRichard C. Kugler, William Bradford: Sailing Ships and Arctic Seas<\/em> (University of Washington Press, 2003), 14\u201315, fig. 11.","exhibition_history":null,"provenance_text":"Henry H. Brooks, Boston, by 1981; Alfred J. Walker, Boston, 1981; Vose Galleries, Boston, 1981; Alfred T. Morris, Providence, Rhode Island, 1981; Adams Davidson Galleries, Washington, DC, 1983; Marshall Field, Chicago, 1983; the Art Institute of Chicago, 1983.","edition":null,"publishing_verification_level":"Web Cataloged","internal_department_id":21,"fiscal_year":1984,"fiscal_year_deaccession":null,"is_public_domain":true,"is_zoomable":true,"max_zoom_window_size":-1,"copyright_notice":null,"has_multimedia_resources":false,"has_educational_resources":false,"has_advanced_imaging":false,"colorfulness":42.2148,"color":{"h":45,"l":48,"s":69,"percentage":0.0015637810438461864,"population":7},"latitude":null,"longitude":null,"latlon":null,"is_on_view":false,"on_loan_display":null,"gallery_title":null,"gallery_id":null,"nomisma_id":null,"artwork_type_title":"Painting","artwork_type_id":1,"department_title":"Arts of the Americas","department_id":"PC-3","artist_id":33731,"artist_title":"William Bradford","alt_artist_ids":[],"artist_ids":[33731],"artist_titles":["William Bradford"],"category_ids":["PC-3"],"category_titles":["Arts of the Americas"],"term_titles":["painting","oil paint (paint)","landscapes","organic material","american arts"],"style_id":null,"style_title":null,"alt_style_ids":[],"style_ids":[],"style_titles":[],"classification_id":"TM-9","classification_title":"painting","alt_classification_ids":["TM-2191"],"classification_ids":["TM-9","TM-2191"],"classification_titles":["painting","american arts"],"subject_id":"TM-8657","alt_subject_ids":[],"subject_ids":["TM-8657"],"subject_titles":["landscapes"],"material_id":"TM-2451","alt_material_ids":["TM-2601"],"material_ids":["TM-2451","TM-2601"],"material_titles":["oil paint (paint)","organic material"],"technique_id":null,"alt_technique_ids":[],"technique_ids":[],"technique_titles":[],"theme_titles":[],"image_id":"4c5abec2-d94f-9afa-b689-de4dc93791f2","alt_image_ids":[],"document_ids":[],"sound_ids":[],"video_ids":[],"text_ids":[],"section_ids":[],"section_titles":[],"site_ids":[],"suggest_autocomplete_all":[{"input":["1983.529"],"contexts":{"groupings":["accession"]}},{"input":["The Coast of Labrador"],"weight":3465,"contexts":{"groupings":["title"]}}],"source_updated_at":"2026-08-05T16:33:53-05:00","updated_at":"2026-10-01T20:22:30-05:00","timestamp":"2026-10-19T15:59:59-05:00"},"info":{"license_text":"The `description` field in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC-By) and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu. All other data in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) 1.0 designation and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu.","license_links":["https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/","https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/terms"],"version":"1.16"},"config":{"iiif_url":"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/iiif\/2","website_url":"https:\/\/www.artic.edu"}}