Rainbow
1920
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 11.5 x 8.9 cm (4 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)
mount: 32.8 x 24.7 cm (12 15/16 x 9 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.456
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Stieglitz Estate Number
238A
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Key Set Number
650
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1992
Two Lives: Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz—A Conversation in Painting and Photographs, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, December 2, 1992–April 4, 1993; IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, April 27–June 26, 1993; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, July 17–September 12, 1993; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 2–December 5, 1993
Bibliography
1992
Arrowsmith, Alexandra, Thomas West, and Belinda Rathbone. Two Lives: A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs. Exh. cat. The Phillips Collection, Washington and New York, 1992: 37.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 650.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, center verso, in graphite: AS
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 238 A
Wikidata ID
Q64034975
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
“. . . Yesterday we had a deep purple Lake—& a rainbow sky—intensely dark & small chasing pink & purple clouds chasing each other in front of the deep sombreness—and a rainbow—” (Stieglitz to Marie Rapp, 6 October 1920 [YCAL]).
A print of this image at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, is inscribed by Dorothy Norman, “Rainbow Lake George 1920.”
Stieglitz Collections
A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:
The Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.737 (inscribed: L.G.2)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 92.1943.4
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Ph-157
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1997-146-112 (inscribed: For D. S. N. / M’ch 28/40 / C.C.)