Bring out your birthday suit for Nude Recreation Week from July 8th through 14th.
Gustave Klumpp's Wedding Dream in Nudist Colony salutes the brave souls who let it all hang out!
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Bring out your birthday suit for Nude Recreation Week from July 8th through 14th.
Gustave Klumpp's Wedding Dream in Nudist Colony salutes the brave souls who let it all hang out!
In 1966, two years after his retirement as a compositor and linotype operator, Klumpp visited Brooklyn's Red Hook Senior Center seeking activities and companionship to fill his days. On the suggestion of the director, he tried painting. Klumpp's lively humor emerges in Wedding Dream; at the lower right, a woman, perhaps Klumpp's alter ego, has spread brushes and palette on the grass and paints a nude portrait.
Source: Lynda Hartigan. Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (exhibition text, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1999).
Pictured: Gustave Klumpp, 1902–1974, Wedding Dream in Nudist Colony, 1971, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson.