Cadmus used his then lover, Jared French, as the model for John Smith in the mural. In 1938, his painting Pocahantas Saving the Life of John Smith, a mural painted for the Parcel Post Building in Richmond, Virginia, had to be retouched when some observers noticed a fox pelt suggestively hanging between the legs of an Indian depicted in the painting. In my picture I merely commented on them – I didn't criticize." The painting, which after Roosevelt's death hung over a mantel at the Alibi Club in Washington for more than half a century, was kept from public view until 1981, temporarily displayed at the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami, and eventually found a home at the Naval Historical Center. The publicity helped to launch Cadmus's career, and he stated at the time, "I had no intention of offending the Navy. Roosevelt, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy at the time, and kept in his home until Roosevelt's death in 1936. Swanson, saying, "It represents a most disgraceful, sordid, disreputable, drunken brawl." Secretary Swanson stated that the painting was "right artistic" but "not true to the Navy." The painting was removed from exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery by Henry L. It was the subject of a public outcry led by Admiral Hugh Rodman, who protested to Secretary of the Navy Claude A. This painting, which featured carousing sailors and women, included a stereotypical homosexual solicitation and erotic exaggeration of clinging pants seats and bulging crotches. In 1934, at the age of 29, he painted The Fleet's In! while working for the Public Works of Art Project.
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In 1979, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an associate member and became a full member in 1980.Ĭadmus is ranked by Artists Trade Union of Russia amongst the world's best artists of the last four centuries. Ĭadmus worked in commercial illustration as well, but French, also a tempera artist, convinced him to devote himself completely to fine art. He maintained a studio at 54 Morton Street. In 1933, they headed back to the United States after running out of money, where Cadmus was one of the first artists to be employed by The New Deal art programs, painting murals at post offices. Career Īfter traveling through France and Spain, Cadmus and French settled in a fishing village on the island Majorca. He furthered his education while traveling through Europe from 1931 to 1933 with fellow artist Jared French, who became his lover for a time. He enrolled at the Art Students League of New York in 1928 taking life-drawing lessons while working as a commercial illustrator at a New York advertising agency. In their 10th Annual Exhibition held at the Brooklyn Museum he showed three etchings, "Fidelma", "Calogero Scibetta" and "Kramer". In 1925, at age 20, Cadmus became a member of The Brooklyn Society of Etchers (now known as the Society of American Graphic Artists or SAGA). Īt age 15, Cadmus left school to attend the National Academy of Design for 6 years. His sister, Fidelma Cadmus, married Lincoln Kirstein, a philanthropist, arts patron, and co-founder of the New York City Ballet, in 1941. His father, who studied with Robert Henri, worked as a commercial artist, and his mother illustrated children's books. Cadmus was born on December 17, 1904, in a tenement on 103rd Street near Amsterdam Avenue, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the son of artists, Maria Latasa, of Basque and Cuban ancestry, and Egbert Cadmus (1868–1939), of Dutch ancestry.
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