“The beach is always only three hundred feet from my studio,” Javier Mariscal, the artist behind the cover of this week’s issue, says. Mariscal is a graphic artist, furniture designer, painter, and sculptor in coastal Barcelona, Spain. “I go there every morning to look at the different waves, the different blues. I love the way the pine trees harbor a cool breeze—they’re so happy to be close to the sea. Their deep black shadows are a great contrast to the bright light.”
Here is a slide show of places where other cover artists have gone for a dip:
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“July 8, 1939,” by Richard Taylor.
