As August wraps up, I wish you all much Il dolce far niente. Also, whatever you are doing or not doing, don’t forget to wear sunscreen.
Amy Sherald, The Bathers, 2015, Phillips/Collection of Pamela K. and William A. Royall Jr. Camille Pissarro, The Bather, 1895, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Leonor Fini, La Grange Batelière, 1977, Art History Project/ARS, New York / ADAGP, Paris Frida Kahlo, What the Water Gave Me, 1938, fridakahlo.org Zinaida Serebriakova, Bather, 1911, Art History Project/The State Russian Museum Amrita Sher-Gil, Woman At Bath, 1940, Google Arts and Culture/National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Florine Stettheimer, Lake Placid, 1919, Art History Project/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Mary Cassatt, Summertime, 1894, Wikimedia Commons Jacqueline Marval, Plage Rose, la Côte des Basques, 1923, jacqueline-marval.com/Private collection, France Pierre Bonnard, 1937-1939, La Grande Baignoire, Wikimedia Commons David Hockey, A Bigger Splash, 1967, Tate Modern, London If you scrolled to the end, please enjoy this excerpt from Meena Alexander’s Dog Days of Summer:
In the dog days of summer as muslin curls on its own heat
And crickets cry in the black walnut tree
The wind lifts up my life
And sets it some distance from where it was.
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