Paul Cadmus - Education, List of Works, Biographical Works, Exhibitions, Sources

Painter, born in New York City, USA. Based in Weston, Connecticut, he was a provocative artist who combined wit and social protest. His most famous (and notorious) paintings are The Fleet's In (1934), and Fantasia on a Theme by Dr S (1946).

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Paul Cadmus (December 17, 1904 - December 12, 1999) was an artist born in New York City.

In 1934 he painted The Fleet's In! while working for the Public Works of Art Project of the WPA.

Education

National Academy of Design, 1926 Art Students League, 1928 Travels through Europe, 1931-1933

List of Works

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 Herrin Massacre, 1940 Aviator, 1941 The Shower, 1943 The Seven Deadly Sins, 1945-1949 What I Believe, 1947-1948, The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas 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

Biographical Works

Sutherland, David.

Exhibitions

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

Sources

http://www.tendreams.org/cadmus.htm 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).