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The frozen crossing depicted in this painting took place in February 1846, when temperatures plunged to -12°F. Normally, departures from Nauvoo were made by ferry, but the sudden freeze permitted roughly 200 to 300 Saints to cross the river directly on the ice. That brief window became a symbolic moment—simultaneously a sign of severe hardship and of providential aid in Latter-day Saint history. The scene captures the beleaguered Saints leaving their “City Beautiful” under Brigham Young’s direction, a migration marked by urgency, faith, and resilience. In Hopkinson’s hands, realism and impressionism are blended to convey both the factual weight of the event and the atmospheric, ancestral memory of the American frontier.
Printed in archival ink on canvas, giclee will be shipped rolled in a protective cylinder, ready to be framed.
The frozen crossing depicted in this painting took place in February 1846, when temperatures plunged to -12°F. Normally, departures from Nauvoo were made by ferry, but the sudden freeze permitted roughly 200 to 300 Saints to cross the river directly on the ice. That brief window became a symbolic moment—simultaneously a sign of severe hardship and of providential aid in Latter-day Saint history. The scene captures the beleaguered Saints leaving their “City Beautiful” under Brigham Young’s direction, a migration marked by urgency, faith, and resilience. In Hopkinson’s hands, realism and impressionism are blended to convey both the factual weight of the event and the atmospheric, ancestral memory of the American frontier.
Printed in archival ink on canvas, giclee will be shipped rolled in a protective cylinder, ready to be framed.