( December 17 , 1904 - December 12 , 1999 ) was an artist born in New York City . 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 .
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 man, was the subject of a public outcry and was removed from exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery . The publicity helped to launch his career.
He lived with his companion of 35 years, Jon Anderson, who 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 short of his 95th birthday.
- "Gayness is not the raison d'être of my work."
- "As an unknown artist at the time, I benefited from the censorship controversy -- and I am eternally grateful to that offended admiral."
- National Academy of Design, 1926
- Art Students League, 1928
- Travels through Europe, 1931 - 1933
- ''The Fleet's In!'', 1933 , Navy Art Gallery, Washington Navy Yard
- ''YMCA Locker Room'', 1933
- ''Shore Leave'', 1933
- ''Greenwich Village Cafeteria'', 1934
- ''Coney Island'', 1935
- ''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
- ''Aviator'', 1941
- ''The Shower'', 1943
- ''The Seven Deadly Sins'', 1945 - 1949
- ''What I Believe'', 1947 - 1948
- ''Playground'', 1948
- ''The Bath'', 1951
- ''Manikins'', 1951
- ''Night in Bologna'', 1958
- ''Sunday Sun'', 1958 - 1959
- ''Male Nude'', 1966 , Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri
- ''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
- Sutherland, David. ''Paul Cadmus, Enfant Terrible at 80''. Documentary film, 1984 .
- Kirstein, Lincoln. ''Paul Cadmus'', 1984 .
- ''The Drawings of Paul Cadmus''. (Introduction by Guy Davenport ).
- Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC, 1935
- Midtown Galleries, New York, 1937
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1996
- D.C. Moore Gallery, New York, 1996
- http://www.glbtq.com/arts/cadmus_p.html
- http://www.history.navy.mil/ac/cadmus/cadmus.htm
- http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/3aa/3aa442.htm
- http://www.johnpence.com/visuals/masters/cadmus/
- http://www.artnet.com/artist/102081/Paul_Cadmus.html
- A genius and a gentleman - painter Paul Cadmus (Obituary). ''The Advocate'', 1 February 2005. {Link without Title}
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