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An American Pulse:
Urban Life


Bathing Beach
Bathing Beach, 1921
Edition of 22
Mason 86; Bellows 18
Museum purchase, 1998:6
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A Sunday afternoon on Third Beach, Newport, Rhode Island.
-Emma Story Bellows

Rather than being a true reflection of urban life, Bathing Beach, falls into a category of what might best be called Bellows' vacation prints. Here, the beach is teeming with humanity and the water is only slightly hinted at in the distance.