Paintings about summer

After a remarkably cool and wet June here in Gotham, we are promised seasonally-appropriate heat beginning tomorrow (fingers crossed). So here's a list of favorite summer paintings, in keeping with previous weather-related posts here and here. Once again, I'm writing about American art from the early twentieth century.

First off, sweaty urban heat in John Sloan's Roofs, Summer Night and Reginald Marsh's raucous mass of humanity in Coney Island Beach. (bonus photo: Marsh sketching while riding a Coney Island carousel horse!)

I'm also a great fan of other beach scenes, including Marsden Hartley's blocky, muscular Canuk Yankee Lumberjack at Old Orchard Beach, Maine and Maurice Prendergast's more genteel (or at least less naked) Beach, St. Malo. This last one, by William Merritt Chase, is a bit of a cheat because it's from 1891--but it's a great pastoral interpretation of summer. Happy beaching, everyone.