Charles Courtney Curran — Children on the Beach · Art Postcard

On pale, sun-bleached sand, a girl in a wide straw hat leans back laughing beside a boy in a khaki sailor suit, while a small girl in white lies flat and a toddler in pink sits turned away, absorbed in something at her feet. Charles Courtney Curran leaves out every adult here, letting four children fill the whole bright afternoon on their own. No parasols, no gardens this time — just sand, sun and four kids left to themselves.