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1 of 1977 Charles Rain, circa 1940

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Charles Rain, circa 1940

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Name	Rain, Charles
Dates & places of birth and death	Knoxville 1911-1985 New York
Notes	Charles Whedon Rain is known for his meticulous, haunting, magic realist scenes. Born in Knoxville, he moved to Nebraska as a child and discovered an early love of art. He traveled to Europe frequently and was deeply influenced by Italian Renaissance painters. He especially admired Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572), who used glazing and under-painting techniques to create paintings in which brushwork is nearly invisible. Rain adopted a similar technique, often using brushes with only two or three bristles. As a result, he produced few works and often spent as much as six months on a single painting. His subjects included everyday objects arranged in strange, eerily-lit groupings as in The Magic Hand, and dream-like scenes such as Eclipse and Procession. Rather than telling a specific story, Rain preferred that viewers interpret his paintings in their own way.

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