What I Believe, 1947-48 egg tempera on wood panel 15.75 X 26.5 inches.

This work was painted in response to his friend E.M. Forester's call for "tolerance, good temper, and sympathy." Cadmus, Forster, and dozens of other naked men and women sun at the shore, bravely, perhaps defiantly, oblivious of the apocalyptic forces massing in the background.