British & American illustrated papers were OBSESSED with the fantasy that France (particularly its beaches) was a land of pleasure & sexual opportunity where the usual rules of respectability didn't apply. Here, women bathers frolic around a floating piano!
—Mirror of Life (1897)

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Coastal Oregon

(based on The Great Bather by Anders Zorn)

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'Study of a Bather.' (1926) Herbert James Gunn was born in Glasgow in 1893, he is perhaps best known for his beach scenes painted largely on the Continent.

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Prudence Heward (1896-1947) (https://t.co/5DyJTFoBka) was a Canadian painter celebrated for her sculptural forms, defiant figures, and expressionistic colours. I think her portrait of "The Bather" (1930) is really excellent.

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Ivon Hitchens
Sun-bather
1934

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Penelope and Lahwhinie's sentences are carried out to completion, leaving the beach with two less bitchy troublemakers to worry about and two more lusciously lotioned sunbathers to decorate the seaside venue for the public's enjoyment!

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“The Bathers”, 1937, by Edwin Holgate who was born on this day in 1892. Look for the dedicated chapter in “The Beaver Hall Group and Its Legacy” by Evelyn Walters

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Chill Sunbather and moth🧋🌼

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42nd TS☀️Chill Sunbather
느긋한 일광욕하는 사람

Cosmetics/Location/Gesture preview Video -> in next thread https://t.co/s2bpqf5GmH

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Bathers, Tuke

The paintings of Henry Scott Tuke: https://t.co/erpXxzMr2M

Wonderful Impressionist reproduction of the 1889 masterpiece by Henry Scott The https://t.co/mgvw8xJcTj

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