Purchased 1925 by Georgia O'Keeffe [1887-1986], Abiquiú, New Mexico;[1] her estate; sold 21 January 1997 through (Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri) to NGA. [1] One annotated copy of the catalogue for the 1925 exhibition that Alfred Stieglitz mounted at Anderson Galleries in New York, in which _Rain_ was first displayed, indicates a sale price for the sculpture; another annotated catalogue lists the work as "sold" (both catalogues are in the archives of the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, Abiquiu, New Mexico; copies in NGA curatorial files). Other sources for the 1925 date are: a letter of 25 October 1965 from O'Keeffe to Dorothy Rylander Johnson, saying "I bought _Rain_ when it was first shown." (quoted in Dorothy Rylander Johnson, "Arthur Dove: the Years of Collage," M.A. Thesis, University of Maryland, College Park, 1967: 35-36, note 57); Hunter Drohojowska-Philip, _Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe_, New York and London, 2004: 254; _Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries_, Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Boston, New York, and London, 2000: 315. However, in a letter of 7 December 1996, John Van Doren (the dealer who handled the sale of _Rain_ to NGA) says "this is a work which Dove gave to Georgia O'Keeffe and which remained in her collection until the end of her life" (in NGA curatorial files).