Tuesday, December 1, 2020 – DIFFERENT VIEWS OF RAIN

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1st,  2020

The

224th  Edition

From Our Archives

RAIN AND THE

CLEARING SKY

From the

Smithsonian American Art

Museum

On a day of gloom and gray, let’s envision some artist’s interpretation of rain.   Sunny skies tomorrow!

Chiura Obata, Before the Rain, Mono Lake, 1930, color woodcut on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Obata Family, 2000.76.22, © 1989, Lillian Yuri Kodan

Hildegarde Haas, Rain, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Zabriskie Gallery, 1975.18.4

Elias M. Grossman, Rain on the Square, n.d., color etching on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Peter E. Blau and Andrew J. Blau in memory of their father, Alan J. Blau, 2012.13.1

Ansei Uchima, Rain in the Mountains, n.d., woodcut, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1969.1

Bertha Lum, Umbrellas in the Rain, color woodcut on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1981.97.3

Bertha E. Jaques, Rain on Thames, ca. 1913, etching, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chicago Society of Etchers, 1935.13.473

Bernice Cross, Georgetown Corner in the Rain, ca. 1934, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor, 1964.1.76

E. Lap, End of the Rain, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1979.78.2

Tony Mattei, Rain, Ketchikan, Alaska, 1937, watercolor, oil, and pencil on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the General Services Administration, 1972.31

Peter Minchell, Amazon Region Series, 1974,Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Robert and Joan Doty, 1992.57

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