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It's Raining

Artist:
Norman Bluhm (American, Chicago, Illinois 1920–1999 East Wallingford, Vermont)
Artist:
Frank O'Hara (American, 1926–1966)
Date:
1960
Medium:
Gouache and ink on paper
Dimensions:
H. 48, W. 40 inches
(121.9 x 101.6 cm.)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Bluhm, 1984
Accession Number:
1984.333
Not on view
Inscription: Signed (lower center): O'Hara bluhm
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage," March 27–June 9, 1968, no. 28.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage," July 16–September 8, 1968, no. 28.

Art Institute of Chicago. "Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage," October 19–December 8, 1968, no. 28.

William S. Rubin. Dada and Surrealist Art. New York, 1968, p. 94, ill. p. 99 fig. 134 (black and white).

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The United States and Canada, 1900 A.D.-present

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