Rain Drops
1927
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): 9.2 × 11.8 cm (3 5/8 × 4 5/8 in.)
mount: 34.6 × 27.6 cm (13 5/8 × 10 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.672
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Stieglitz Estate Number
178B
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Key Set Number
1197
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1197.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: Rain Drops — 1927 / 1927 (P + N)
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 178B
Wikidata ID
Q64035451
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
According to the list given by the Stieglitz Estate to the Library of Congress, this photograph was identified as an Equivalent (see “Pictorial Index of Alfred Stieglitz Photographs in the Library’s Collection,” PR12, lot 3598).
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, 1949.810
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 121, folder 2441
Library of Congress, Washington, PH-32 A
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 28.128.10
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Private collection
Lifetime Exhibitions
A print from the same negative—perhaps a photograph from the Gallery’s collection—appeared in the following exhibition(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
1932, New York (no. 69, as Raindrops on Grass, 1925)