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- PORTRAS SHED LIGHT THROUGH GAY PRISM
- SIXTEEN EAST GAY STREET
- GEE BELLOWS (AMERIN, 1882-1925) SIXTEEN EAST GAY STREET
- SIXTEEN EAST GAY STREET, 1923-24
PORTRAS SHED LIGHT THROUGH GAY PRISM
Gee Bellows, Sixteen East Gay Street, 1924. Lhograph, sheet: 11 7/16 × 13 5/8 . (29.1 × 34.6 cm) Image: 9 1/2 × 11 3/4 . (24.1 × 29.9 cm). Whney Mm of Amerin Art, New York; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel L. Rosenfeld 77.105 * george bellows gay *
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SIXTEEN EAST GAY STREET
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” Name-brand artists clu Robert Mapplethorpe, Andrew Wyeth and Thomas Eaks other words, the openly gay, the openly straight and those whose sexuali are bated among historians. “To fd an image om him wh homoerotic ntent ont and center and a prt, which circulated to a mass dience that’s pellg, ” Mr.
Ward add, “By beg exclud, gay artists had a special vantage pot, ” one that often lent them “a more accurate view of society.
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GEE BELLOWS (AMERIN, 1882-1925) SIXTEEN EAST GAY STREET
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It also explor the theory that the gay and straight worlds termgled more eely before World War II. We might thk that today is more progrsive than a century Seek -curator Jonathan Katz argu that while the past wasn’t perfect, there was a time when gays and lbians weren’t socially segregated om the straight world.
“What I wanted to show is that this is not jt gay art or gay works, but that gay and straight are distguishable. And that a number of the straight figur of Amerin art ma work of directly homoerotic social import bee before 1950 gay and straight were much more faiar wh one another than they are today.
What’s gog on here, Gee Bellows, the most signifint artists of his era, makg a homoerotic picture which a homoerotic relatnship is ont and center.
SIXTEEN EAST GAY STREET, 1923-24
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Homoerotic btseller Katz says the fact Shower Bath is a prt and not a patg is also very are sold on the open market.