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Maurice Galbraith Cullen 1866 - 1934 Canadian oil on canvas The Iceberg 23 x 28 1/8 inches 58.4 x 71.4 centimeters signed and on verso titled on a label Literature:Hughes de Jouvancourt, Maurice Cullen, 1978, an oil sketch entitled Iceberg off Newfoundland reproduced page 64 Sylvia Antoniou, Maurice Cullen, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1982, pages 30 and 33, listed page 70 Provenance:Private Collection, Nova Scotia Exhibited:Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Maurice Cullen Exhibition, September 26, 1982 - October 2, 1983, catalogue #37 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Retrospective Maurice Cullen Exhibition, December 15, 1983 - January 22, 1984, catalogue #37 Canadian Impressionist Maurice Cullen spent his early childhood in St. John's, Newfoundland, and later, when based in Montreal, returned to paint there in the summers of 1910, 1911 and 1912. Newfoundland is known for the icebergs that originate from the Greenland icecap and float from Labrador to its eastern coast in the summers - they are a majestic sight which Cullen explored in a number of works, in a similar manner to artists such as Monet with his Giverny series. Back in Montreal, Cullen exhibited his Newfoundland work to fine reviews and praise from renowned Impressionist James Wilson Morrice, who stated, "He is the man in Canada who gets at the guts of things." Antoniou writes that this work "is related to Iceberg off Newport, also known as Newfoundland, which was exhibited at the Cullen Retrospective (Hamilton 1956 no 4 coll. R.W. Pilot)." Cullen's mastery of impressionist techniques is clear in this outstanding work with its exquisite painterly treatment of the water with its many hues of blue and green and the atmosphere in which bright light spotlights the dramatic iceberg against a misty background.