After the Rain
1922
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): 11.1 × 8.8 cm (4 3/8 × 3 7/16 in.)
mount: 32.7 × 26.5 cm (12 7/8 × 10 7/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.529
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Stieglitz Estate Number
192E
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Key Set Number
776
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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
1995
Alfred Stieglitz at Lake George, Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 14, 1995–January 2, 1996
2004
Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle: 1905–1930, Musée d'Orsay, Paris; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2004–2005
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: 62.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 776.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: Exhibition / 1923[4]
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 192E
Wikidata ID
Q64035101
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
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:
Fisk University, Nashville, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, ASC.2012.88
Library of Congress, Washington, PH-21 A
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 24.1735 (inscribed: Apple & Drops of Rain / Photograph by / Alfred Stieglitz / 1922 / negative & print made in / Lake George, N.Y. / by Alfred Stieglitz / Print no. 3 from this negative)
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:
1923, New York (no. 113, as After the Rain, 1922)
1932, New York (no. 70, as Raindrops on Apple, 1920)