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| Pierre Bonnard Street at Evening in the Rain 1899 lithograph Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Félix Buhot Landing in England 1879 etching, drypoint and aquatint Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Anonymous Dutch Artist Four Young Women on Bicycles in the Rain ca. 1920-30 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Rockwell Kent Rain Torrents, Alaska 1918 drawing (print study) Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Harris & Ewing Army Day Parade in the Rain, Washington DC (marking the 22nd anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I) 1939 digital file from glass negative Library of Congress, Washington DC |
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| Thomas Handforth Rain 1927 etching, drypoint and aquatint Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Larry Clark Untitled (rainy night) 1980 gelatin silver print Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Larry Clark Untitled (rainy night) 1963 gelatin silver print Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Jacob Maris A Canal with passing Rain before 1899 watercolor Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Nicolas Poussin Winter, or, The Flood 1660-64 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Bernard Leach Chalk Quarry, Rain (near Ditchling) 1936 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Joseph Pennell Rainy Night, Charing Cross Shops 1903 etching Brooklyn Museum |
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| Félix Vallotton The Downpour 1901 woodcut Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Vincent van Gogh Wheat Field in Rain 1889 oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Edward Weston Rain, Sierras 1937 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Raghubir Singh Women in Monsoon Rain 1967 C-print Yale University Art Gallery |
from Monsoon Poem
Because this is a monsoon poem
expect to find the words jasmine,
palmyra, Kuruntokai, red; mangoes
in reference to trees or breasts; paddy
fields, peacocks, Kurinji flowers,
flutes; lotus buds guarding love's
furtive routes. Expect to hear a lot
about erotic consummation inferred
by laburnum gyrations and bamboo
syncopations. Listen to the racket
of wide-mouthed frogs and bent-
legged prawns going about their
business of mating while rain falls
and falls on tiled roofs and verandas,
courtyards, pagodas. Because such
a big part of you seeks to understand
this kind of rain – so unlike your cold
rain, austere rain, get-me-the-hell-
out-of-here rain.
– Tishani Doshi (2017)