#george quaintance

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George Quaintance (American, 1902-1957), Nudes Emerging Through A Water Lily. 1937

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George Quaintance (American,1902-1957)  

Night in the Desert, 1951

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Glenn Bishop by George Quaintanance (1957)

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george quaintance 1950

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George Quaintance

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Died on this day: joyous connoisseur of firm male flesh, George Quaintance (3 June 1902 – 8 November 1957), whose wildly idealized, instantly recognizable and ultra-camp homoerotic beefcake art made him a predecessor to Tom of Finland. Pictured: Nudes Emerging from a Water Lily, 1937.

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By George Quaintance

…nice chaps we got here

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Backyard Barbecue Beef

NightCafe AI

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SWIMMER BY GEORGE QUAINTANCE (1947)

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“As art historian Christopher Reed argues, ‘The Wilde trials seemed to reveal homosexuality as the secret behind the enigmatic passions of the Aesthetes, tainting the entire movement, all of its products, and even the idea of aesthetic sensitivity.’

Indeed, the modern identities of ‘the homosexual’ and ‘the artist’— both considered manifestations of innate predispositions—developed nearly simultaneously in the nineteenth century, as both creating art and committing sodomy moved from activities to ways of being. ‘Artistic’ quickly became euphemistic slang for ‘queer.’ Painter Paul Cadmus remembered how the association had transferred to the American scene by the 1930s. ‘They just said, ‘He’s an artist.’’ American psychiatrists, too described men suspected of homosexuality as ‘aesthetic in temperament.’ Thus when [Bob] Mizer [influential founder of the homoerotic Physique Pictorial magazine] adopted this language, praising [artist George] Quaintance for his ‘neo-aestheticism’ and imagining his audience as ‘the limited aesthetic group,’ he was signaling to and helping construct a distinct gay identity among his readers.”

David K. Johnson, Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepeneurs Sparked a Movement

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George Quaintance (American, 1902-1957)

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George Quaintance (American,1902-1957)  

Rainbow Falls, 1954

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by GEORGE QUAINTANCE

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We might as well just call this the "George Quaintance Series." Must be a homo-age.

Bill Edison and John Garner photographed by Bob Mizer, 1950s

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By George Quaintance

Let’s go chasing waterfalls…

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Summers Day 1940

oil on canvas