#palms

Art the community tagged “palms” — see what people make of it.

Erisava Staff 3d ago

Beach at Apia, Samoa by Louis Eilshemius, 1905

Yale University Art Gallery · wikidata.org

Beach at Apia, Samoa

Public domain

Apparently he really did sail out to the South Pacific and came back with a stack of scenes like this one. They say almost nobody took him seriously for decades — until Marcel Duchamp, of all people, started calling him a genius, which only half stuck.