(1864-1946)

Spring Showers, 1900-1901.

Photogravure on japan vellum. Printed slightly later, 1903/04.

Image 30.7 x 12.5 cm; sheet approx. 44.9 x 26 cm (irregular).

Under passepartout, framed. The reverse of the frame mounted with gallery label.

Literature:
- Camera Work. No 36. New York, October 1911. (Ill. plate XVI).
- Dorothy Norman. Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer. New York, 1973 (ill. plate IX).
- Sarah Greenough und Juan Hamilton (Ed.). Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983 (ill. plate 13).
- Richard Whelan. Stieglitz on Photography, his selected essays and notes. New York, 2000 (ill. p. 115).

Provenance:
- Directly from the artist.
- Dorothy Norman, New York.
- Andrew Norman, New York
- Amy Wolf Gallery, New York.
- French collection.

"In 1900 he had stood in Madison Square and aimed his camera down Fifth Avenue to make the photograph he entitled Spring Showers; one can barely make out, on the right the tall cupolaed building that still stands at Twenty-second Street and, on the left, the old Erie Railroad office, which was torn down to make way for the Flat-iron."
(Whelan, 2000, p. 116).

"the New York of transition. - The Old gradually passing into the New... the Spirit of that something that endears New York to one who really loves it - not for its outer attractions - but for its deepest worth - & significance. - The universal thing in it."
(Stieglitz quoted in Whelan, 2000, p. 116).