Curatorial Narrative In 1938, Eric Ravilious’s “Aldeburgh Bathing Machines” situated itself at the confluence of modernism and traditional English landscape painting. The artist’s characteristic use of impasto in this work imbues the scene with a tactile quality, as if the very brushstrokes have been left to dry on the canvas, their ridges and grooves suggesting the rough-hewn wooden frames that line Aldeburgh Beach.The visual language employed by Ravilious in “Aldeburgh Bathing Machines” is one of understated elegance, its chromatic structure a nuanced blend of greens, blues, whites, and browns. When enlarged to 52×44 inches, this palette takes on an even greater sense of depth and atmospheric weight, the interplay between the cool tones of the sea and sky and the warm earthy hues of the bathing machines creating a spatial rhythm that is at once soothing and invigorating.The spatial structure of “Aldeburgh Bathing Machines” also un