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More Early Artists Who Broke Convention and Sparked the Debate About
Sexuality: fleets in! (c1942) american gothic (c1930)
GRANT WOOD (1891-1942) I so totally love that the man who painted one of
PAUL CADMUS (1904 – 1999)
Born in 1904, on the Upper West Side of
Manhattan, Paul Cadmus was also a son of noted artists: His mother Maria Latasa was an illustrator and his fatherEgbert Cadmus, a commercial artist. His early career was as a commercial artist like his father, having studied at the National Academy of Design for six years, then life-drawing studies at the Art Students League of New York. He travelled Europe as a part of his continued arts education and did so with fellow artist, Jared French. The two would famously become lovers and be photographed by George Platt Lynes in seemingly intimate poses for the time, as they summered on Fire Island along with French’s wife Margaret Hoening. His work for the Public Works Art Project of
the WPA in the early ‘30s, in particularThe Fleets In!, would spark controversy for its explicit—al- beit clothed, but very tightly clothed—depic- tion of partying sailors and women, as well as a bit of homosexual solicitation. That fact, caused it to be removed and hidden from view for years, though the controversy catapulted his fame. Cadmus responded to such notoriety by saying, “The Navy brass who are so angry must govern anAlice in Wonderland navy dream world, they should take a stroll along the drive at night when the fleets in port.”
the most recognizable American images in history, was a gay man. Grant Wood was a rural Iowa farm boy born in 1891, who spent the early part of his childhood in what he described as “Idyllic settings,” which would inform his work throughout his career. An early interest in the arts was encouraged and his creative talents grew throughout high school and after graduation. Wood attended the Minneapolis School of Design and Handicraft in 1910, which incidentally is still there and a school this author attended in the ‘80s! It was there that he learned to work with metal and jewelry as well as furniture building, skills he would use to make a living after moving to Chicago, where his nights were filled with correspondence courses and classes at the Art Institute there. Wood managed to get himself
to Europe where he studied and was deeply influenced by Impressionism, studying at the Académie Julian and exhibiting his work in Paris. Though it was after a much later trip to Germany, where he encountered works of 15th- and 16th-century German and Flemish masters, which would profoundly change the direction of his painterly works and inspire his entry into realism and his early creation ofAmerican Gothic, in 1930. It and many of his following depictions of rural life, dubbed as Regionalism, propelled Wood’s fame. Though married and deeply closeted, he maintained a relationship with his personal secretary, sadly reflective of the times, it’s a fact that very nearly cost him his job at the University of Iowa’s School of Art.
THE MEN: THOMAS EAKINS (1844 – 1916)
THOMAS EAKINS (1858 – 1929)
JOHN SINGER SARGENT (1856 – 1925)
MARSDEN HARTLEY (1877 – 1943)
christ held by half naked man (c1911)
male model resting (c1895) swimming (c1895)
noonday heat (c1911)
medallion (c1937)
THE WOMEN: HANNAH ‘GLUCK’ GLUCKSTEIN (1895 – 1978)
MARIE LAURENCIN (1883 – 1956)
JEANNE MAMMEN (1890 – 1976)
LOTTE LASERSTEIN (1898 – 1993)
introduction (c1928)
le bal élégant, la danse à la campagne (c1911)
self portrait with a friend
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