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ARTIST NAME: Paul Cadmus
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Short Biography of Paul Cadmus:
| Paul Cadmus was born in New York City in
1904, Paul Cadmus has spent the past nine decades honing a singular,
remarkably complex style of aesthetic idealization and social
critique in justly celebrated paintings, drawings and etchings of
nude figures, fantastical scenes and supercharged allegories. After
abandoning a career in advertising, Cadmus studied fine art,
traveled throughout Europe in the early 1930s, and returned to the
U.S. as an employee of the Public Works of Art Project. When The
Fleet's In!, his notoriously erotic painting of sailors on
leave, was simultaneously rejected by the PWAP and embraced by
critics and patrons, Cadmus was inspired to devote himself as a
full-time artist, uniquely able to render mythological beauty and
daily grime, homoerotic fever dreams and emotionally naked
self-portraits. Throughout the ensuing decades, Cadmus' work has
been exhibited internationally at major museums and galleries,
earning controversy and reverence in equal measure. Now 93 years
young, Cadmus lives and works in Weston, Connecticut with his
partner, Jon Andersson. He is the subject of Paul Cadmus, a
lavishly illustrated monograph by his brother-in-law, Lincoln
Kirstein, and of Paul Cadmus: Enfant Terrible at 80, a 1984
film by David Sutherland.
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