Bathtub Art Museum--Tub Artists

A lovely whimsical collage-- the moose looks entirely content to bathe in his clawfoot tub set upon rocky ice in a steel-blue bathroom. This reminds me of a greeting card cover that would have a clever moose pun punchline inside. What would it say? I moose you?

tub art

Untitled. Collage. 8.5 x 5.25 in.

Somewhere past the red telephone, sponges, shampoo, rubber ducks, sink, soap, towels, shoes, and bubbles there is a classic painterly lady trying to clean herself. This indeed in my opinion is a very realistic view of the modern bathroom. The lady is hiding behind all her hygienic clutter!

As far as her own relationship with bathtubs, Christine says, "I discovered the Bathtub Art museum by accident and perhaps it caught my attention because it brought back memories of the big claw foot bathtub in the San Franciso flat that I grew up in. I am especially nostalgic for old fashioned bathtubs, which appear in many art pieces on this site, because now, in our rented apartment we have a very narrow small tub that I only shower in."

Christine Dorothea-Maris is a fan of collage and mailart, and when the Bathtub Art Museum sent out a call for baby photos or mailart, Christine was the only one to send in a postcard collage that included a photo of herself in the sink having a bath. Then on whim she sent the museum two two more collages after she kept coming across great bathtubs in magazines.

If you'd like to drop Christine a line, you can email her at: christinedm13@hotmail.com