Salvatore Dali ‘s The Picnic (1921)

The location of this early painting, The Picnic on the Grass, is unknown.

George Bellows Picnic [Cooper Lake, Woodstock, NY] (1924)

Bellows’s The Picnic is an example of a stylistic experiment with the technique of distorting the field of vision. He called Dynamic Symmetry. The picnic suggests a panoramic view of Cooper Lake, Woodstock’s water source. * The picnic is a family affair. Bellows is...

Alexander Gerasimov’s The Boating Party (1925)

The Boating Party is motivated by state-instigated propaganda to boost a failing economy and patriotic spirits. Here, Gerasimov extolls Soviet agricultural abundance during a period when it was failing. The robust women enjoy a picnic in a rowboat chock-a-block with...

E. H. Shepard’s “Map of the 100 Aker Wood” in Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)

Shepard The original Pooh illustrations were line drawings and were not colorized until later. The area marked “Nice for picnicks” is at the top, slightly left of center. Shepard also illustrated Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows (1931) See E.H. Shepherd. Map...

Marguerite Zorach’s The Picnic(1928)

Zorach’s The Picnic looks like a happy picnic. A family has motored to the country and settled on a hillside for a relaxing afternoon. In the foreground, a woman in a red sweater is reclining. Behind her, the mother, a woman in blue, is unpacking foods, a man with a...

Mabel Dwight’s Coney Island Beach (1928)

Dwight’s beach scene is no picnic. It’s a crowded Coney Island scene with a humous twist. Compare Dwight’s beach scene with John Sloan’s South Beach Bathers (1908) and Reginald Marsh’s Beach Picnic (11939). Featured Image: Mable Dwight’s Coney Island...

Simka Simkhovitch’s The Picnic (1930s)

Simkhovitch’s The Picnic is a day of leisure for a group that seems mirthless. They sit on bare earth, and each is unsmiling and subdued. There is no picnic joy as a small picnic cloth is spread around which they all gather. A man in a bathing suit reclines, his back...

Jean Dupas’s Establish A Picnic and Pass The Day Together (1933)

The title of this poster for the London Underground is written in non-standard English. Establishing a picnic is almost incomprehensible unless you are a nation builder. A joke maybe? See Jean Dupas’s <em>Establish A Picnic and Pass The Day Together</em>...

Dorothy Eaton’s Family Picnic (1930’s)

Eaton’s Family Picnic depicts a traditional family gathering around an outdoor brick fireplace. See Dorothy Eaton. Family Picnic (1930’s). Oil on canvas.  

William S. Schwartz’s Picnic (1930s)

Schwartz’s evocation of a  family picnic in a lush landscape. Featured Image:  Family Picnic (1930s). Oil on canvas