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Awful Shy (2010) by Philip Gladstone. A more self-reflexive version of the Flandrin pose than usual from American artist Philip Gladstone. (His main site is here.) Among other works he also quotes Thomas Eakins’ homoerotic classic, The Swimming Hole (1885). Elsewhere on { feuilleton } • The recurrent pose archive • The gay artists archive

Previous posts about gay or homoerotic art or artists. A personal and idiosyncratic selection, this isn’t meant to be definitive. • Keep Your Timber Limber • The art of Naomichi Okutsu • The art of Konstantin Somov, 1869–1939 • The art of Seiji Inagaki • Claudio Bravo’s packages • Gekko Hayashi revisited • The art [...]

Scène d’été (Summer Scene, 1869) by Jean-Frédéric Bazille. Elsewhere on { feuilleton } • The gay artists archive Previously on { feuilleton } • The art of Thomas Eakins, 1844–1916

The Wrestlers. Born in Philadelphia, Eakins studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he would later teach, from 1862, before travelling to Paris where he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts. His final six months in Europe were spent in Spain. Returning to Philadelphia in July 1870, he set himself up as a [...]