Sunday, July 16, 2023

Rendering Rain - IV

Max Dupain
Melbourne with Rain
1946
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Adolf Fassbender
Rain (Hospenthal, Switzerland)
1937
photogravure
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

John Charles Robinson
October Rain, Posuclos in the Guardarramas near Madrid
ca. 1876
etching and drypoint
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Gertrude Hermes
Winter: Rooks and Rain
1950
color linocut
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Edwin Austin Abbey
Man in Rain
ca. 1887
drawing
(print study)
Yale University Art Gallery

Clarence H. White
Drops of Rain
ca. 1902
palladium print
Library of Congress, Washington DC

Clarence H. White
Drops of Rain
1908
photogravure
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Vincent Samuel Mentzel
Holland Pop Festival - Rotterdam in Rain
ca. 1970
gelatin silver print
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Saul Leiter
Rain
ca. 1953
silver dye bleach print
Art Institute of Chicago

Camille Pissarro
Effet de Pluie, Rouen
1883
etching, drypoint and aquatint
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Anthony Raine Barker
A Showery Day at Bologna
1912
etching
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Theodor de Bry after Jacques Boissard
Crocodile in the Rain
1596
engraving
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Charles Burchfield
Three Days Rain
ca. 1918
watercolor
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Alfred Stieglitz
A Wet Day on the Boulevard
1894
photogravure
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena

Günther Krampf
People gathered in Rainy Street
1919
bromoil print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Theo van Hoytema
Barge-billed Heron in the Rain
ca. 1908
lithograph
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

from Rain

Toward evening, as the light failed
and the pear tree at my window darkened,
I put down my book and stood at the open door,
the first raindrops gusting in the eaves,
a smell of wet clay in the wind.

– Peter Everwine (2008)

John Wykeham Archer
Man in Rain
Brooke Street, Holborn

ca. 1850
watercolor on paper
British Museum