Hang out in the tub!Break the shower habit and have a long, luxurious soak in a bath instead. Bring your rubber ducky, too. Today is Bathtub Party Day!
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Hang out in the tub!Break the shower habit and have a long, luxurious soak in a bath instead. Bring your rubber ducky, too. Today is Bathtub Party Day!
Everett Shinn's print depicts a classic art subject, the nude—where else? in the bathtub! The subject and composition of Nude Getting into Bath, as well as the combination of pastel with monotype, suggest that Shinn was familiar with Edgar Degas's monotypes. There is no record that he ever met Degas, but it is clear in Shinn's works of the early 1900s that Degas's monotypes and pastels had a major impact on the young artist and probably inspired his own brief experimentation with monotype.
Source: Joann Moser. Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, 1997) at http://americanart.si.edu/collections/exhibits/monotypes/index.html.
Pictured: Everett Shinn, 1876–1953, Nude Getting into Bath, about 1910, color monotype on paper mounted on paperboard, 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase.