Gay bathroom art for the room built around a body. Water runs, the mirror fogs, and the tiles finally get something worth looking at. Painters worked this out long before the plumbing did. Men who loved men painted bathers, and the Royal Academy hung Henry Scott Tuke’s Falmouth swimmers year after year, barely dressed and entirely at ease. So hang a nude bather where you shave and guests wash up. Is that too much? No. But is it enough? Never... these gay bath prints love company.
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About this collection
Every shower is a small bathhouse with the lights left on. Bathhouse art is older than the towel rail. Charles Demuth kept his steam-room watercolors out of polite company, homoerotic and gloriously unrepentant, and each Turkish bath painting reads like a diary entry he forgot to burn. Marsden Hartley gave a Finnish-Yankee Sauna the heat of a confession. Thomas Eakins painted himself into his own Swimming Hole. Eugène Jansson made the Naval Bath House in Stockholm look like Olympus with a cold-water tap.
The male bathers painting habit never went out of fashion. It moved indoors. Nude swimmers, wet shoulders, a towel slung low, a nape catching light through frosted glass, and my own pieces leaning against the old masters on the tiles. Call it queer bathroom art or gay bathroom decor. Guests will tell you it's the reason they took forty minutes to wash their hands. It hangs above a clawfoot tub as easily as in a pokey ensuite, and it makes the usual men’s bathroom wall art look like a sad sticker on the cistern. Lock the door. The mirror’s already fogging, and somebody in the next room is pretending not to wonder.
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I love this case! It’s beautiful! I’ve had it for about a month so far and have dropped my phone several times - my phone stayed in and the case is holding up well. The quality of the image isn’t grainy - you can see all the little details :)
Fabulous, Kellie! So pleased to hear your new treasure's guarding your phone in style. I love how fine the printing detail is, too — makes all the difference. Thanks a bunch for sharing your thoughts. Enjoy!
As always, brilliant work and brilliant service. The fastest service I’ve ever received by far from any artist—buy it, and it’s here within 5-7 days! This is my fifth purchase from Toby, and I’m waiting on a sixth. Tony is a magnificent artist and a magnificent business person. ✨✨✨✨✨
Huzzah! So happy to see the latest piece worked its magic like the rest, David. Your joy makes it all worth it for me. Thank you, thank you, thank you! ❤️
A classic image really well rendered in a large format. Arrived faster than expected, very well packed and in perfect condition.
Thanks Greg! Very happy to hear this print impressed like the others. Appreciate you taking the time to share. And here’s to your new treasure trove of daydream fuel… enjoy!
The artist captured the spirit of revelry and wild dance. A dancer, say, in the entourage of Dionysus. Sepia—old, say Renaissance (haven’t looked up the artist. The seller was knowledgeable, friendly, and the packaging was secure.
Huzzah! Thanks, James! Delighted you’re delighted and enjoyed our chats about art, design and Renaissance fairs. Look forward to helping you find more members of your retinue in the future.