Robert Bliss, Kneeling Athlete, 1960

Robert Bliss, Seated boy in orange shirt, 1960

Cabin Boy, 🎨 by Henry Scott Tuke

Robert Bliss, Two bathers, 1962

Robert Bliss, Kneeling acrobat, 1960

Robert Bliss, Boy standing with legs crossed, 1960

m a n   in art     🖌henry scott tuke

This is one of the last paintings Tuke did before he died in March 1929, of the semi-clad male figure by the sea leaning on the rocks, bathed in Cornish sunlight. It features one of his most loyal and longstanding models in Tuke's later years, Charlie Mitchell (1885 – 1957).

Robert Bliss, Acrobat and line, 1960

Fucking true.