My first event is Judy Dater being inspired by Thomas Hart Benton's 1938 Persephone. According to Dater, she first saw this painting when she was a child, which is why I have ranged the approximate date from her birth to age eighteen. Persephone "creeped" Dater out at first, as she said in an interview (date unknown) after she captured the famous Imogen and Twinka at Yosemite in 1974. As she got older, she was inspired by the concept of a clothed person looking at a naked person, without the naked person's knowledge. When it came time for Dater's 1974 workshop, she used those same ideas. Viewers see Imogen heavily covered in dark clothes with a camera around her neck while Twinka is naked rather than nude and (supposedly) surprised that Imogen has found her in the woods. I say Twinka is supposedly surprised rather than truly surprised because the women's expressions read as if they expected to see one another. If Twinka were truly unaware of Imogen’s presence, she would be even more similar to the woman in Thomas Hart Benton’s work.The idea of a clothed person "creeping" or "spying" on a naked person napping or strolling is uncomfortable yet begs many questions. The many questions, which will be discussed later, are some of the things that influenced Dater in her later artwork, Imogen and Twinka at Yosemite.

Getty.edu. Imogen and Twinka at Yosemite. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/109C5J?tab=exhibitions 

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