Wednesday, August 11, 2010

The Pleasures of the Mariners


Sea, The
by Lewis Carroll

There are certain things - a spider, a ghost,
The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three -
That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most
Is a thing they call the SEA.


Otto Dix, The Pleasures of the Mariners, 1923 


André Dignimont, Bar, c. 1935


Alexei Pakhomov, Bathing Red Army Sailors Plummeting from a Ship, 1933


Eugene Jansson, In Navy Bathing Hut, 1907


 Albert Janesh, Water Sport, 1936


 Charles Demuth, Dancing sailors, 1918


 Josef Maria Auchentaller, Portrait of Peter, 1906


 Otto Griebel, Ship Boilerman, 1920


 Marcel Ronay, Sailor and Girl, 1929


 Hans Bellmer, Marseille, 1932


 Cagnaccio di San Pietro, L'alzana, 1935


 Paul Cadmus, Sailors and Floosies, 1938


 Hilary Harkness, Iowa Class, 2003

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