Rainbow

1920

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

The image displays a landscape with a broad sky and a faint rainbow. A range of hills sits on the low horizon line, while dense trees cover the land in the foreground. The image appears in greyscale, emphasizing the contrast between the darker hills and trees and the lighter sky with clouds and rainbow.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 11.4 × 9 cm (4 1/2 × 3 9/16 in.)
    mount: 31.8 × 24.8 cm (12 1/2 × 9 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.457

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    238C

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    652

The image shows a man leaning his head on his hand, positioned with his face resting on his left hand. He has a mustache, thin-framed eyeglasses, and thick, greying hair that curls slightly at the edges. He is dressed in a formal jacket, a white shirt, and a black bow tie. The background is a soft, dark blur.

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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: 131.

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 652.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, center verso, in graphite: AS
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 238C

Wikidata ID

Q64034976

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