Paul Cadmus [1904-1999]
                                                                                                                                Jerry, 1931
                                                                                                                                oil on canvas
                                                                                                                                20" X 24"

Jared French often served as the model for figures in the works of Paul Cadmus, but the artist "produced only two full-scale portraits of his lover, neither of which was exhibited during the 1930s" (Richard Meyer):

     "We might note that Jerry's bedside reading is James Joyce's Ulysses, a novel banned at the time on grounds
     of obscenity.  As Cadmus recalls, Luigi Lucioni, an Italian friend and fellow painter, smuggled a contraband
     copy of the book into the United States as a gift to the couple.  Jerry's outlawed practice of reading Ulysses,
     connected as it is to his frankly sensuous gaze and recumbent body, may stand in for other, less easily
     representable acts of bedtime transgression."  

    - Richard Meyer, Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art,
      Boston: Beacon Press, 2002.

The painting was recently acquired by the Toledo Museum of Art [Source] for their permanent collection, and is now the best reason for visiting Toledo.

Today is June 16th and the second anniversary of 1904.  Happy Bloomsday.

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