Dorothy Hood
The Light of Rain

The Light of Rain

© Estate of Dorothy Hood

The Light of Rain
The Light of Rain
ArtistAmerican, 1918–2000
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • The Light of Rain
Date1968
PlaceHouston, Texas, United States
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions80 × 59 3/4 in. (203.2 × 151.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Meredith J. Long
Object number68.54
Non exposé

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Dorothy Hood steadily
increased the scale of her canvases in the 1960s while thinning the density of
her pigments. Paintings from this era express both her inner evolution and her
response to larger currents in American art, in particular Color Field painting
and the work of Mark Rothko.  



The
Light of Rain
was Hood’s first painting to enter a
museum’s collection, and with its evocation of Gulf Coast skies, it has a
strong sense of place. Hood stated her ambitions in her journals, “A great
painting makes you remember something out of time . . . as a happening which
did not begin but always was.”




ProvenanceGiven to MFAH, 1968.
Exhibition History"Dorothy Hood/Recent Paintings," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, May 8–June 14, 1970.

"Texas Painting & Sculpture, The 20th Century," Pollack Galleries, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, January 17–March 7, 1971; Witte Museum, San Antonio, March 21–May 2, 1971; University Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin, June 13–July 18, 1971; Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, September 16–November 15, 1971; The Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, January 9–March 5, 1972.

City of Houston, Office of the Mayor, April 3, 1978.

"Kindred Spirits: Louise Nevelson and Dorothy Hood," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 3, 2018–February 3, 2019.

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