Spring Showers, New York

1900/1901, printed 1911

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

Printed with silvery gray tones, a single tall tree with a spindly trunk and sparse canopy grows inside a round cage set into a sidewalk in this tall, narrow photogravure. The tree is just left of center. A short distance away, a person wearing a light coat and a dark cap cleans the street along the gutter near the left side of the photograph. The sidewalk and street to our right gleams with rain, and horse-drawn carriages are like smudged silhouettes in the hazy distance. Skyscrapers are barely visible against a misty sky in the top half of this picture.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    photogravure

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 23 × 9.2 cm (9 1/16 × 3 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.1278.44

  • Copyright

    Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

  • Key Set Number

    270

Associated Artworks

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Camera Work: Vol.9: Numbers 33, 34/35, 36

Alfred Stieglitz

1911

The Steerage

Alfred Stieglitz

1907

City of Ambition

Alfred Stieglitz

1910

Alfred Stieglitz

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1992

  • Stieglitz in the Darkroom, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 4, 1992–February 14, 1993

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 270.

Wikidata ID

Q79975562

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