In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
In this sunny tableau of summertime leisure on the shore of Bellport, Long Island, bands of young women and men swim, sail, and slide and dive from a floating raft. Glackens's lively strokes of high-keyed colors, especially in the iridescent seawater, offer an American variation on bathing scenes by French modernists such as Monet and Renoir. Albert Barnes applauded his friend Glackens's galvanization of American art and believed that the artist's brilliant use of color helped viewers to "see life with a reality that our unaided selves never would have experienced."
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Gustave Caillebotte — Voiliers à Argenteuil
Gustave Caillebotte — Regatta at Argenteuil
Georges Seurat — Bathers (Study for "Bathers at Asnières")
Pierre-Auguste Renoir — La Seine à Argenteuil (The Seine at 
Georges Seurat — Group of Figures (Study for "Un dimanche à 
Pierre-Auguste Renoir — The Seine at Argenteuil (La Seine à 
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Vincent van Gogh — Seascape near Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Me
Claude Monet — Fishermen in Poissy
Gustave Caillebotte
Georges Seurat — Horse and Boats (Study for "Bathers at Asni
