Paul Cadmus Nude Latest Content Upload for 2025 #737

This is the first major solo exhibition of this important 20th century artist in over 20 years, and one of the only ones to highlight cadmus’s highly finished male nude drawings. In his elegant tempura paintings, cadmus emphasizes his subjects’ musculature in a style akin to magical realism, offering a level of intricate detail beyond observable life. While the painting is not on public display, a smaller etching of the piece is currently included in the male nude, revealing in detail cadmus’s subversive sexualization of the sailors, featuring exaggerated crotches and bulbous buttocks in tight clothing. His first exhibition in 20 years, paul cadmus The male nudes is the first show to highlight this body of work “we’re lucky to be able to combine them with eight of his major paintings,” says moore “we wanted to show his mastery of drawing and his obsession with it Paul cadmus is best known for his erotic depictions of nude male figures, charged with satire, social criticism, and a strongly idealized sexuality Cadmus first gained recognition for his 1934 painting the fleet's in, where the controversy of a group of sailors he pictured carousing among prostitutes and homosexuals inspired a public outcry. Learn more about this artwork when cadmus’s 1934 painting _the fleet’s in!_ was censored by the us navy, the artist responded by deftly brokering his artwork’s visibility.