Felix Buhot (French, 1847-1898) Rain and Umbrella c.1875, Etching. Dark lines, which match the vertical hatching of the objects in the illustration. It’s not clear what is rain and what depicts the walls of the buildings. Weather and buildings unite.
The convention by which the motion of drops of water is represented by elongating them into a shape they never actually have in the real world appears in the picture of Peter jumping into the watering can. Yet interestingly, while this teardrop shape is like a backward arrow, we know the movement is away from the point only because we know the convention; Peter is himself a teardrop shape in this picture, but we assume he is entering the watering can, not leaving it—that he heads in the direction his body is pointed toward.
Perry Nodelman, Words About Pictures
Joan Walsh Anglund
Garth Williams for Do You Know What I’ll Do by Charlotte Zolotow
Lines with the odd droplet shape
From Fish Head (1954) Marc Simont (1915-2013). Elongated droplets
Postcard by A. Golubev, 1968 rain
EIN KÖRNCHEN FÜR DEN PFAU (1970) Helga AichingerSuzanna Byalkovskaya, 1950s
LINES OF RAIN
White lines
William Steig (American, 1907-2003) New Yorker cover
Dick Sargent
Vogue Cover – March 1935 Premium Giclee Print by Eduardo Garcia Benito Feline rain
Caught In The Rain by Albert W. Hampson
Mauro Scali 1956
Light coloured broken lines, tilted for wind direction
White and blue lines
Peter Spier. RainEugen Hartung, Swiss. 1897-1973
HOLČIČKA A DÉŠT’ (1974) Jan Kudláček
Black lines, and white for in front of the black
Now I’ll walk in all the puddles. From At the Open Door by Louise Robinson, 1913
Ruler straight lines that extend across the entire canvas
The Slough of Despond, illustration for a 1928 edition of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, wood engraving by Gertrude Hermes (UK, 1901-1983)
Charles Keeping 1969 From the book ‘Knights, Beasts and Wonders’H. R. Van Dongen (1920 – 2010) 1954 cover illustration The Big Rain for Astounding Science Fiction magazine.The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories 1908 illustrated by Sidney Herbert SimeIda Rentoul Outhwaite 1888 – 1960 The StormDugald Stewart Walker illustrator, Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) writer, ‘Rainbow gold; poems old and new selected for boys and girls’ 1922-6Bernie Wrightson (1948 – 2017) 1977 illustration for Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
RAIN IN THE DISTANCE
George Bellows (American, 1882 – 1925) Rain on the River, 1908Mai Miturich, 1969 rainThe-Airmail.-N.-C.-Wyeth.-1938
Storm Scents: It’s True, You Can Smell Oncoming Summer Rain, from Scientific American
Crocodile In The Rain, Theodor de Bry, after Jean Jacques Boissard, 1596
