Charles Rain

Charles Rain was an American magic realist painter during the 20th century.

Biography Charles Whedon Rain was born in 1911 in Knoxville, Tennessee. He grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1931-1933, with fellow Nebraskan artist and friend Keith Martin. Rain returned to the United States in 1935, settling in New York. Rain also created costume designs for a ballet performed by the School of American Ballet. He died in New York in 1985.

In 2019, Charles Rain's costume designs for the ballet Yankee Clipper were featured in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art about Lincoln Kirstein, a co-founder of the New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet.