Spring Showers, the Coach
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Spring Showers, the Coach is a black and white photograph taken by Alfred Stieglitz in 1899–1900. The picture was published in the Camera Notes journal in January 1902. Sometimes it is incorrectly presented as being taken in 1902.[1]
History and description
Stieglitz started taking a series of nocturnal views of
Madison Square on a rain.[2] The picture depicts a typical urban scene of the time, with a carriage riding through heavy rain, in a street ornamented with trees to their left. It is one of the best examples of Stieglitz pictorialist phase, where he tried to emulate the delicate tonal style of the American painter James McNeill Whistler by taking it under rain and snow. There are also some influence of the Japanese art then at vogue in the western world.[3][4]
Carolyn Burke states that this photograph, similarly to others in the same series, "blends urban and pastoral elements in compositions that show an affinity with the
Arts and Crafts aesthetics." According to Burke the current photograph, like the companion piece, Spring Sowers - The Street Cleaner "share the linearity that would distinguish Stieglitz's photograph of the Flatiron building, on the south side of the square."[5]
Public collections
There are prints of this photograph at the
References
- ^ Art of the Photogravure
- ^ Carolyn Burke, Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury, New York, Alfred E. Knopf, 2019, p. 18
- ^ Spring Showers, the Coach at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- ^ The Photography of Alfred Stieglitz: Georgia O'Keefe's Enduring Legacy, George Eastman House, 2000, p. 216
- ^ Carolyn Burke, Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury, New York, Alfred E. Knopf, 2019, p. 18
- ^ Spring Showers, the Coach at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- ^ Spring Showers, the Coach at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts