The artist's wife Susan claimed that this painting has a subject as "idyllic as" the artist's earlier painting Arcadia, but unlike Arcadia, this painting is "straight out of reality."
The artist's wife Susan claimed that this painting has a subject as "idyllic as" the artist's earlier painting Arcadia, but unlike Arcadia, this painting is "straight out of reality." This painting, which is currently at the Amon Carter Museum, was inspired by  Frederic Bazille's Scene d'ete. The artist's friends--such as Benjamin Fox and Talcott Williams appear in this painting, whose left-most figure is modeled on the sculpture The Dying Gaul. The artist's (*) big golden retriever Harry can be seen in the foreground of this painting, whose figures were partly inspired by the earlier painting William Rush and His Model. A poem by James Whitcomb Riley provided the title of this painting, whose eroticism is often held to be a visual depiction of the "Calamus" section of Leaves of Grass. Six nude men at Dove Lake appear in, for 10 points, what painting by Thomas Eakins?
The artist's wife Susan claimed that this painting has a subject as "idyllic as" the artist's earlier painting Arcadia, but unlike Arcadia, this painting is "straight out of reality."
The Swimming Hole [or Swimming or The Old Swimming Hole] 