The Swimming Hole (1884–85) is a painting by Thomas Eakins. It is perhaps the most famous work by Eakins and considered a masterpiece of American painting. In this work, Eakins took advantage of an exception to the generally prudish Victorian attitude to nudity: swimming naked was widely accepted, and for males was seen as normal, even in public spaces. Eakins was the first American artist to portray swimming in the nude. By the 1970s some American writers were beginning to see Eakins' work, and specifically The Swimming Hole, as having homoerotic overtones. However, Eakins' (homo-)sexuality has never been conclusively determined.
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This user has been on Wikipedia since the early days but finally created an account 18 years, 4 months and 20 days ago.
This is my original account that i finally regained access to after more than 3 years. For my account set up last year (2008) see jh0367. I also have aPortuguese account solely for improving the references on the mono band article.
My wikistalkstats for User:Deliriousandlost (my original primary account i got locked out of thanks to my own stupidity with passwords), User:Jh0367 (which is a WP:CHU of User:Dekkuf elttil), and for the hijacked name User:Mono band fan (which was to replace the previously mentioned name deemed too profane for WP), my personal domain name account (see note below), and User:delirious & lost, the account created because the spoofing check failure noted below). As i was using jh0367/dekkuf elttil as my primary account from September 2008 to September 2009 there is some cross-over editing to articles and one template (which i advised the involved user of on their talk page) but i had not participated in any RfA or XfD at that time. I've become much more adept at keeping them separate, using Firefox for my alt account & associate articles and Chrome for this account and any new contributions when i am at home.
9 Nov 09 = Out of pure curiousity for how it would be treated as both a new account and a domain name i just created an account using my personal domain name. After i can gauge some response to it i will be tagging it as a doppelgänger account. Please block it if it ever contributes. The other concern that lead to me creating the account is that User:Adam2893, whom i filed an WP:SPI case on added me as a friend on Windows Live Messenger. I declined but it glitched (Windows :S) and he became a friend for about a day before i knew it. That gave him access to my the history of my status updates, which included my domain name. He is no longer a WLM friend and has been blocked but it seemed better that i create the account than have him create it to impersonate me. delirious & lost ☯ TALK 19:33, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
20 August 10 = Out of some extended testing of the spoof check on the ACC sandbox and the discovery that & is (currently) a permitted character in a user name i have created User:delirious & lost because that is how i sign everything, when in English that is. It turns out that the spoofing check (presently) does not pick up on the similarity of and versus &. See http://toolserver.org/~acc/sand/acc.php?action=zoom&id=9711delirious & lost ☯ ~hugs~ 04:54, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
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