#bathers

[writinginnorthnorfolk]

Bathers

When they emergefrom the water in their soggybathing costumes,their bodiesare like the landscape: dunes and waves, grit and pearls,sand and pebbles, seaside girlsin a rainbow of hues,reds, purples pinks and blues,shivering in the breeze. The lighthouse calls from granite rocks,a chalk stick tall and white,and they sing that songto a summer sky: “I wanna marry a lighthouse keeperAnd keep him…

[lesbianarthistory]

Félix Vallotton (1865-1925)

[thunderstruck9]

Daniele Galliano (Italian, 1961), Let's Go 1, 2019. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm.

[ratatoskryggdrasil]

Olaf Odegaard, Idyll, 1988

[balkanparamo]

Zinaida Serebriakova – The Bathhouse (1913)

[huariqueje]

Beach - Wendelien Schönfeld , 2017.

Dutch, b.1950 -

Colour linocut , 23 x 23 cm

[peaceinthestorm]

Maurice Denis (1870-1943, French) ~ Baigneuses au crépuscule (Bathers at Twilight), 1912

[clawmarks]

Artistes anciens et modernes : lithographies et eaux-fortes - 1846 - via Internet Archive

[theaskew]

Raffi Kalenderian (American b. 1981, lives and works in Los Angeles), Bathers, 2023-2024. Acrylic and coloured pencil on paper, 32 x 25 cm. | 12.5 x 9 .75 in. 

[federer7]

Bathers. 1976

Photo by Jim Lee

[analogmartt]

Young men lining up to jump in the lake, shot on Kodak Tri-X 400 in Berlin. September 2023.

Instagram

[ratatoskryggdrasil]

Richard Adams Rathbone, The Rocks, 1941

[balkanparamo]

Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian Bathhouse, 1926, Oil on canvas

[huariqueje]

Summer day , Holmsbu - Thorvald Erichsen , 1916.

Norwegian , 1868-1939

Oil on canvas , 91 x 100 cm.

[peaceinthestorm]

Albert Besnard (1849-1934, French) ~ The Stream in the Sabine, 1920

[Source: drouot.com]

[cosmonautroger]

Jim Lee, Bathers, 1976