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Further January Notes
Forthcoming group show at the Naughton Gallery at Queen's in Belfast. A sports-themed exhibition, which is allowing me to revisit an image I have used before, from The Swimmer (dir. Frank Perry, 1968).
It is a very fleeting moment from the movie, in which Rusty Towers (we can deduce this from the novel by John Cheever, in which he is named) floats in a swimming pool at a riotous afternoon party. The movie is fairly faithful to Cheever's novel, and he plays a very small cameo part as a guest at the party (as does Joan Rivers). Burt Lancaster plays the lead as Ned Merrill, 'swimming home' through his neighbours' pools.
Study for Rusty Towers |
Burt Lancaster as Ned Merrill |
Rusty Towers in 'The Swimmer' |
Work-in-progress |
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