Hughie Lee-Smith's painting, Bather, is an intimate shoreline scene of three figures at a lake-side beach. Lee-Smith's composition, with its diagonal alignment and uniform spatial alignment of the figures, gives a broad sense of depth perception. In her 2010 monograph, Dr. Leslie King-Hammond writes, "Bather is stunning in the simplicity of its spacious, airy landscape, yet startling in the brevity of a single gesture; why is the subject hiding her face?" King-Hammond p. 46.
