Style1½ inches thick (3.75 cm) Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
AvailablityUsually ships within five business days. ArtistJimmy Napier Pro Member CollectionBackntheday
Description Back years ago people in small towns bathed in washtubs .Washtubs with their bottoms burnt black .In the summer the tubs were used for canning wood fires built under them to boil the water .When the cloths needed washing the tub was used for that to .The tub was so versatile it could be used as a musical instrument 'the washtub base ' in the hands of a talented player didn't sound bad.The tub was used for boiling water when hog killing time came.The tub was used as a step stool .The saying don't throw the baby out with the bath water came from this era.The family took baths in the same water from the eldest to the youngestso by the time they got to the baby it was pretty dirty.Seems unsanatary now but back then it was the standard.Like drinking from the same dipper .Heating and packing the water was hard work and they got as much use as they could out of it. The painting is from the sixties as I remember them mothers would dip water in cups and pour over kids hears to rinse them .As you drove past houses on country roads there were washtubs hanging from the sides of houses their bottoms smoked black.