A swimming pool first trickled into the corner of Hockney’s painting California Art Collector (1964); one featured more prominently in Picture of a Hollywood Pool of the same year. Both acrylics, they ...

The first swimming treatise in English was a translation of Everard Digby's 1587 tome, "De Arte Natandi," or "The Art of Swimming." The odd book shows and describes how men and women can float ...

Irish man Jack B Yeats' painting titled The Liffey Swim won a silver medal in the arts and culture category at the 1924 ...