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PROPERTY ORIGINALLY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LAURA GILPIN CLARENCE H. WHITE 1871-1925 'DROPS OF RAIN'

platinum print, matted, 1903

PROVENANCE

Gift of the photographer to Laura Gilpin, circa 1918

By descent to the present owners
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

Camera Work, Number 23, p. 41

William Homer, et al, The Symbolism of Light: The Photographs of Clarence H. White (University of Delaware, 1977), pl. 53

Clarence H. White: The Aperture History of Photography Series (Aperture, 1979), p. 83

Sarah Greenough, et al, On the Art of Fixing a Shadow (National Gallery of Art, 1989), pl. 165

Michel Frizot, A New History of Photography (Cologne, 1998), p. 292
CATALOGUE NOTE

Clarence H. White came of age as a photographer when pictorialism was the stylistic mode of the day, and he remained involved in photography as it began to shift toward modernism. Evident in 'Drops of Rain' is White's talent for skillfully combining elements of both pictorialism and modernism in a single image. Working with what might be considered classic pictorialist subject matter--a young child seated in front of a rain-spattered window screen, and posing with a transparent glass globe--White avoids an easy sentimentalism. Through his deft arrangement of the planes of focus - the boy's profile, the globe, the screen, the hazy shapes beyond the screen?White creates a poetic document of a real moment in time.