Paul Cadmus [Pintor Norte- Americano]

Paul Cadmus (Nova Iorque, 17 de dezembro de 1904 - 12 de dezembro de 1999) foi um pintor norte-americano. As suas obras possuíam forte teor homoerótico. Com uma técnica muito própria, usando têmpera em suas pinturas, fazia denúncias de cunho social. Muito de seus quadros reflete o que se chama de realismo fantástico.

Paul Cadmus(December 17, 1904 – December 12, 1999) was an American artist. He is best known for his paintings and drawings of nude male figures. His works combined elements of eroticism and social critique to produce a style often called magic realism. He painted with egg tempera.

In 1934 he painted The Fleet's In! while working for the Public Works of Art Project of the WPA. This painting, featuring carousing sailors, women, and a homosexual couple, was the subject of a public outcry and was removed from exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery. The publicity helped to launch his career. He worked in commercial illustration as well, but Jared French, another tempera artist who befriended him and became his lover for a time, convinced him to devote himself completely to fine art.

Jon Andersson, who became Cadmus's longtime companion of 35 years, was a subject of many of his works.

In 1999 he died in his home in Weston, Connecticut due to advanced age, just five days shy of his 95th birthday.

Cadmus's sister, Fidelma, was the wife of philanthropist and arts patron Lincoln Kirstein. Cadmus is ranked by Artists Trade Union of Russia amongst the world-best artists of the last four centuries.

Education

National Academy of Design, 1926

Art Students League of New York, 1928
Travels through Europe, 1931–1933

List of works

Jerry, 1931, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio

YMCA Locker Room, 1933

Shore Leave, 1933

The Fleet's In!, 1934, Navy Art Gallery, Washington Navy Yard

Greenwich Village Cafeteria, 1934

Coney Island (oil painting), 1934, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Coney Island (etching), 1935, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Aspects of Suburban Life: Main Street, 1935, D.C. Moore Gallery

Aspects of Suburban Life: Golf, 1936, Virtual Museum of Canada

Sailors and Floozies, 1938, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City

Pocahontas and John Smith, 1938, Port Washington Post Office

Two Boys on a Beach #1, 1938, D.C. Moore Gallery

Bathers, 1939

Herrin Massacre, 1940, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio

Aviator, 1941

The Shower, 1943

Point O' View, 1945, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts

The Seven Deadly Sins, 1945–1949, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Fences, 1946, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

What I Believe, 1947–1948, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Playground, 1948, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia

The Bath, 1951

Manikins, 1951

Bar Italia, 1953–55

Night in Bologna, 1958, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Sunday Sun, 1958–1959

Le Ruban Dénoué: Hommage à Reynaldo Hahn, 1963, Columbus Museum of Art (Philip J. & Suzanne Schiller collection), Columbus, Ohio

Jon Anderson in White Tights, 1966 Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

Male Nude, 1966, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri

The Eighth Sin: Jealousy, 1982–1983, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

The Haircut, 1986

Final Study for the House that Jack Built, 1987, D.C. Moore Gallery

Me: 1940–1990, 1990, D.C. Moore Gallery

Jon Reading NM248, 1992, D.C. Moore Gallery

Jon Extracting a Splinter NM255, 1993, D.C. Moore Gallery

Self-Portrait, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

Biographical Works

Eliasoph, Philip, 'Paul Cadmus and the Virtue of Anachronism,' 'Drawing' -The International Review published by the Drawing Society, Jan–Feb. 1981, pp. 97–104.

Eliasoph, Philip, 'Paul Cadmus: Life & Work', doctoral dissertation, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1979, [authorized biography written with the artist's first-hand data, suggestions, overview;]

Eliasoph, Philip, 'Paul Cadmus: Yesterday & Today,' Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio, with an introduction by Lloyd Goodrich, [first and only retrospective catalogue, followed by national tour to four regional art museums;]

Eliasoph, Philip, 'Paul Cadmus at Ninety: The Virtues of Depicting Sin,' American Arts Quarterly, 1995, pp. 39–55;

Eliasoph, Philip 'A Tribute to Paul Cadmus: Posthumous Appreciation', American Art Journal-Smithsonian Institution, Fall, 2000, Vol 14.No. 3.

Eliasoph, Philip 'Paul Cadmus: Reflections,' catalogue essay for Christie's American Art sale, "Important Americian Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture," May 24, 2007, pp. 199–206.

Sutherland, David. Paul Cadmus, Enfant Terrible at 80. Documentary film, 1984. Philip Eliasoph, Associate Producer, created with funding and support of Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut.

Kirstein, Lincoln. Paul Cadmus,(Imago Imprint: Arnold Skolnick) 1984.

The Drawings of Paul Cadmus. (Introduction by Guy Davenport).

Spring, Justin. Paul Cadmus: The Male Nude (New York: Universe, 2002)

Exhibitions

Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC, 1935

Midtown Galleries, New York, 1937

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 1942

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1996

D.C. Moore Gallery, New York, 1996

Fonte:

http://www.queer-arts.org/archive/9809/cadmus/cadmus.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cadmus
http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=494
http://www.kingsgalleries.com/paul-cadmus/
http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/gruen/gruen1-6-8.asp

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Paul-Cadmus/289639780463

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