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Sebald Beham Women's Bath ca. 1540 woodcut Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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Cornelis van Haarlem Bathsheba Bathing 1617 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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Johannes Glauber Ideal Landscape with Bathers ca. 1690 drawing Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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attributed to Pierre-Paul Prud'hon Young Woman Bathing 1782 oil on canvas Huntington Library and Art Museum, San Marino, California |
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Reinhold Begas After the Bath 1856-58 marble Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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Lawrence Alma-Tadema Roman Bathers 1876 oil on panel Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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John Singer Sargent Neapolitan Children Bathing 1879 oil on canvas Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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Alfred Roll Bathers 1888- pastel on paper, mounted on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Study for Bather ca. 1891 drawing Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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Paul Cézanne Bathers ca. 1895 oil on canvas Ordrupgaard Art Museum, Copenhagen |
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Paula Modersohn-Becker Three Boys Bathing by a Canal 1901 tempera on cardboard Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts |
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Max Liebermann Boys Bathing 1904 etching Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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Valdemar Andersen Bade Anstalten, Kjøbenhavn ca. 1905 lithograph (poster for bath house) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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Aleksandr Drevin Bather 1932 oil on canvas Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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André Lhote Bathers 1935 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
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Boris Ignatovich Moscow Bath House 1935 gelatin silver print Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
from Rhode Island
Here at the seashore they use the clouds over & over
again, like the rented animals in Aїda.
In the late morning the land breeze
turns and now the extras are driving
all the white elephants the other way.
What language are these children shouting in?
again, like the rented animals in Aїda.
In the late morning the land breeze
turns and now the extras are driving
all the white elephants the other way.
What language are these children shouting in?
He is lying on the beach listening.
The sand knocks like glass, struck by bare heels.
He tries to remember snow noise.
Would powder snow ping like that?
But you don't lie with your ear to powder snow.
Why doesn't the girl who takes care
Would powder snow ping like that?
But you don't lie with your ear to powder snow.
Why doesn't the girl who takes care
of the children, a Yale girl without flaw,
know the difference between lay and lie?
know the difference between lay and lie?
– William Meredith (1997)