1566 / Oil on panel / 67 1/3″x98 2/5″ / Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1870 / Oil on canvas / 24″x18″ / The Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Mansion, Woodstock, VT
1563 / Oil on canvas / 42″x59 4/5″ / Private collection
Song Dynasty (960–1279) / Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
72 3/4″x48 3/4″ / National Palace Museum, Taipei
The celebrated designer Jed Johnson, who died tragically in 1996 in the crash of TWA Flight 800…first met artist Andy Warhol when he was hired to sweep the floors at Warhol’s famous factory. He would go on to become Warhol’s companion and lover—helping him find and decorate the East 66th Street townhouse where Johnson and the artist lived until the two split in 1976… ~curbed.com/
Jed Johnson and Archie by Andy Warhol
c.1975 / Polaroid prints / Private collection
Jed Johnson by Andy Warhol
1978-87 / Gelatin silver print / Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Jed Johnson by Andy Warhol
c.1978 / Acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen / The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Paul Cadmus met Jon Anderson, The Nantucket Man, fortuitously on Nantucket Island in 1964. From the pivotal moment when Jon began to model for Paul onward, Jon said Paul’s “production of satirical paintings slowed and his creation of intimate, sensuous paintings and drawings increased.” ~Paul Cadmus & His Circle
Self-Portrait by Paul Cadmus
1965 / Crayon on paper / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, DC
Jon Anderson in White Tights
by Paul Cadmus
1966 / Pencil and wash on paper / Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Have Fun, Drive Carefully
by Paul Cadmus
1991 / Crayons on Canson paper / Collection of John and Joanne Payson
William Rodolphus Christopher was an American artist and civil rights activist known for his abstract imagery and collage. His longtime partner was the artist George Tooker; the pair lived in New York City until 1960, when they moved to Hartland, Vermont; the couple spent winters in Spain, where Christopher died in December 1973.
~Wikipedia
Self-Portait by George Tooker
1969 / Egg Tempera on gesso panel / National Academy of Design, NY, NY
Assemblage Collage Painting/Sculpture with Pennies and Scrap Civil Rights Artist by William R. Christopher
1960-1969 / Mixed Media / Private collection
Beginning in the late 1930s, Cadmus, Jared and Margaret French –
and
sometimes Tooker by the mid-1940s – spent summers in Provincetown, Fire Island, and Nantucket. Most of the time was spent in Saltaire, Fire Island, which became the setting of paintings that A. Hyatt Mayor [museum curator, art historian, and writer] once dubbed the ‘Fire Island School.’ ~Cadmus, French, & Tooker, the Early Years
George Tooker (1920–2011), Bathers (Bath Houses) by George Tooker
1950 / Egg tempera on gessoed board / The Huntington, San Marino, CA
Point O’View by Paul Cadmus
1945 / Egg tempera on panel / Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Three women and a Lifeguard by Jared French
ND / Oil on canvas / Private collection
The Moon by Day by Margaret French
1939 / Egg tempera on canvas mounted to board / Private collection
Tooker began studying at the Art Students League in New York City from 1943 to 1945 under American painter Reginald Marsh…Tooker met then sixteen-year-old Paul Cadmus, who became his lover, lifelong friend, and major artistic mentor. ~theartstory.org
Self-Portrait of the Artist by George Tooker
1947 / Tempera on panel / Promised Gift to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
Portrait of George Tooker by Paul Cadmus
1949 / Ink heightened with white on paper / Private collection
Self-Portrait by Paul Cadmus
1935 / Tempera on board / Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
Margaret Hoening was a painter and an etcher [who studied] at the Art Students League. There, she met the artist couple Paul Cadmus and Jared French. In 1937, she married French, fifteen years her junior, who had spent the previous decade with Cadmus. The trio formed a tight bond, with Cadmus and French continuing their relationship. Together, the three formed PaJaMa (a mashup of their first names, Paul, Jared, and Margaret).
~https://d6jcg90g7mpvu.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/margarethoeningfrench.pdf
Self Portrait by Margaret Hoening French
ND / Pencil on Paper / Private collection
Circus Performers and Animals by Margaret Hoening French
ND / Gouache on board / Private collection
