William James Glackens: The Bathing Hour; Chester; Nova Scotia; William James Glackens; 1910; Oil on canvas; William Glackens spent the summer of 1910 in Chester; Nova Scotia; painting the scenery and daily life around him. Here he captures the pleasures of summertime leisure. As one figure floats across the water on his back; bright white paint describing the spray from his foot; four women cool off in the center; a boy teeters in a boat while another runs along the dock. Fashionably dressed women chat by the waterfront while a nursemaid accompanies a small child into the bathhouse. Wet bathing clothes hang from a laundry line stretching across the middle ground. The inclusion of such mundane details helped Glackens build a convincingly realistic scene. The Bathing Hour was exhibited at the famous Armory Show in New York in 1913.; Overall: 26 x 32 in. (66 x 81.3 cm)