I went out to see the following three events/exhibits (and a few old friends) at the Brooklyn Museum yesterday...Discussion: "Reflections on Paul Cadmus"
Jon Andersson, longtime partner of Paul Cadmus, whose work is included in the exhibition HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, spoke to scholar and author Philip Eliasoph about Cadmus’s life and work.
Jon recalled meeting Cadmus for the first time in Nantucket and how their relationship developed over the 35 years that they were in partnership.
Afterward I visited the following exhibitions at the museum:
Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties
HIDE/SEEK: Difference in Desire and American Portraiture
(Luigi Lucioni (American, 1900–1988). Paul Cadmus, 1928. Oil on canvas, 16 x 12 1/8 in. (40.6 x 30.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 2007.28)
Caught up with many old friends that were in attendance including: Jon Andersson, Philis Raskind, Sue Renee Bernstein and Eric Stephen Jacobs.
Below is one of the Cadmus drawings of Jon that was discussed in the afternoon interview:
