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Paul Cadmus

Paul Cadmus (1904 - 1999) was active/lived in Connecticut.  Paul Cadmus is known for Drawing, nude figure, satirical genre, etching.

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The following was written and compiled by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:


Paul Cadmus was born in New York City on December 17, 1904 and lived and worked in New York City.  He came from an artistic family.  His father was a lithographer who painted in a modest way; his mother did illustrations for children's books; his sister was a designer.  Paul began to draw when he was two and one-half.   When he was fourteen, he entered the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League.  He was the pupil of Joseph Pennell, William Aurbach-Levy, Charles Locke, and Jared French. 

Later he worked for an advertising agency until he had some money; he became the lover of Jared French and the two went to live in Majorca.  When he returned to the United States in 1933, there were no jobs for young artists.  He joined the Public Works of Art Project, forerunner of the Works Progress Admin   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5528 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Paul Cadmus

   Publications  Book References:  119
Magazine References:  17

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17 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Paul Cadmus
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Drawing: American Artist Line made Flesh August 2005 Rubenstein, Ephraim Yes
American Art Review Drawings & Watercolors, Hood Museum March 2005 MacAdam, Barbara J Yes
ARTnews Books March 2003 Editors, Artnews Yes
Art-Talk New York? New York! November 2002 Bass, Ruth No
American Art Review American Revival of Tempera Painting April 2002 Boyle, Richard J Yes
ARTFORUM Boys and the Banned April 2002 Warner, Michael Yes
Art & Antiques From Ruinous to Liminous August 2000 Robinson, Rebecca Yes
ARTnews National News February 2000 Editor, ARTnews Yes
ARTnews ARTtalk November 1999 Editors Yes
American Art Review Magic Realism: An American Response August 1999 Tomor, Michael A Yes
American Art Review The Forbes Magazine Collection June 1999 Forbes, Christopher Yes
ARTnews Reviews September 1998 Editors, ARTNews Yes
ARTnews Reviews August 1998 Editors, ARTNews Yes
American Artist The Technical August 1998 Sutherland, Jane Yes
American Art Review Modern American Realism April 1998 Mecklenburg, Virginia M Yes
American Artist Drawing with wax-based colored penc November 1996 Willard, Christopher Yes
American Art Review American Art 1900-1940 October 1994 Adams, Christy Yes
119 Book References for Paul Cadmus
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Pyle, Amy (Spanierman Gallery) Art for the New Collector III Re-Emerging American Artists
(Exhibition catalog)
68 Yes
2003 Editor, Gallery Exhibition Exposed: The Nude
(Exhibition catalog)
17 Yes
2002 Meyer, Richard Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in 20th Century Art 376 No
2002 Spring, Justin Paul Cadmus The Male Nude
(Exhibition catalog)
176 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students) 187 No
1998 Calo, Mary Ann Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings 328 No
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
1996 Barbara and Peter Toohil Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know… 363 Yes
1995 Robertson, Bruce Representing America Ken Trevey Collection American Realist Prints
(Exhibition catalog)
67 No
1994 Lucie-Smith, Edward American Realism 240 Yes
1993 Henkes, Robert Themes in American Painting Common Styles and Genres/A Reference 260 Yes
1993 Weinberg, Jonathan Speaking for Vice Homosexuality in the Art of Charles Demuth etc 260 Yes
1992 Adams, Henry (others) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region
(Exhibition catalog)
495 Yes
1992 Columbus Museum of Art A Nation's Legacy 150 Years of American Art from Ohio Collections
(Exhibition catalog)
198 Yes
1991 Doss, Erika Benton, Pollock and the Politics of Modernism 445 No
1991 Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County 510 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1990 Lang, Gladys & Kurt Etched, in Memory The Building and Survival of Artistic Reputation 437 No
1990 McElroy, Guy C Facing History The Black Image in American Art 1710-1940
(Exhibition catalog)
190 Yes
1990 Plimpton, George; J. Carter Brown Sport in Art From American Museums
(Exhibition catalog)
128 Yes
1989 Beckham, Sue Bidwell Depression Post Office Murals and Southern Culture/A Gentle Reconstruction 338 No
1989 Davenport, Guy (introduction) The Drawings of Paul Cadmus 144 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1989 Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Handbook of the Collections 198 Yes
1989 Maass, R. Andrew (Foreward); Valerie Ann Leeds (Intro) At the Water's Edge: 19th and 20th Century American Beach Scenes Tampa Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)
140 Yes
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1989 Ward, John L American Realist Painting 1945-1980 431 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Mecklenburg, Virginia Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
148 Yes
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Adams, Henry; John Caldwell, John Lane et all American Drawings and Watercolors In The Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute
(Exhibition catalog)
314 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Kloss, William/C C Eldredge Treasures from the National Museu of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
254 Yes
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1985 Lucie-Smith, Edward Art of the 1930s The Age of Anxiety 264 Yes
1985 Weber, Bruce The Fine Line Drawing with Silver in America
(Exhibition catalog)
103 No
1985 Wooden, Howard E American Art of Great Depression Two Sides of the Coin
(Exhibition catalog)
151 No
1984 Adams, Henry 25th Anniversary Exhibition Selected American Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)
120 No
1984 Clark-Langager, Sarah Order and Enigma
(Exhibition catalog)
95 No
1984 Cummings, Paul Twentieth Century American Drawin The Figure in Context
(Exhibition catalog)
144 No
1984 Kirstein, Lincoln Paul Cadmus 144 Yes
1983 Davidson, Marshall The Drawing of America Eyewitnesses to History 256 Yes
1982 Berman, Greta/Jeffrey Wechsler Realism and Realities The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960
(Exhibition catalog)
195 Yes
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1982 Von Blum, Paul Critical Vision/A Historyof Social and Political Art in the U S 165 No
1982 West Publishing Company West '82 Art and the Law
(Exhibition catalog)
96 Yes
1981 Eliasoph, Philip Paul Cadmus Yesterday and Today/Essay and Catalog
(Exhibition catalog)
128 Yes
1981 Hirschl & Adler Galleries America in Print 1796-1941
(Exhibition catalog)
128 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1981 Whitney Museum Twentieth Century Drawings Selections from the Whitney 136 No
1981 Wooden, Howard E. (Text) The Neglected Generation of American Realist Painters, 1930-48 Wichita Art Museum Exhibition, May 3-June 14, 1981
(Exhibition catalog)
64 Yes
1980 Johnson, Una E American Prints and Printmakers A Chronicle of Over 400 Artists 266 Yes
1980 Munson-Williams-Proctor Inst The Olympics in Art, An Exhibitio Works of Art Related to Olympic Sports
(Exhibition catalog)
166 Yes
1980 Neuen Gesellschaft Bild. Kunst Amerika Traum und Depression 1920-1940
(Exhibition catalog)
544 Yes
1980 Styron, Thomas W American Figure Painting 1950-198
(Exhibition catalog)
115 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1978 Shapiro, David Art for the People New Deal Murals on Long Island
(Exhibition catalog)
59 No
1978 Whitney Museum American Art 1934-1956 Selections from Whitney Museum
(Exhibition catalog)
148 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Brown, Milton W The Modern Spirit American Painting 1908-1935
(Exhibition catalog)
96 Yes
1977 Cloudman, Ruth H The Chosen Object European and American Still Life
(Exhibition catalog)
66 No
1977 Park, Marlene/Gerald Markowitz New Deal for Art: The Government Art Projects of the 1930s
(Exhibition catalog)
172 No
1977 Shepard, Lewis A; David Paley, Frank Trapp American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection At the Mead Art Gallery Amherst College
(Exhibition catalog)
252 Yes
1977 Sweeney, J Gray Themes in American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)
220 Yes
1976 Castelman, Riva American Prints 1913-1963
(Exhibition catalog)
160 No
1976 Cummings, Paul American Drawings The 20th Century 207 No
1976 Gerdts, William H; Jeffrey Hoffeld American Drawings & Watercolors from the Collection Susan and Herbert Adler
(Exhibition catalog)
82 No
1976 Heller, Nancy/Julia Williams The Regionalists 190 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 Taylor, Joshua C America as Art 320 Yes
1976 University of Minnesota The American Scene Urban & Rural Regionalists, 30s and 40s
(Exhibition catalog)
39 No
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1975 Smith, Bradley The U S A A History in Art 296 Yes
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Gerdts, William H The Great American Nude A History in Art 224 Yes
1974 Van Devanter, Ann, et al American Self Portraits 1670-1973
(Exhibition catalog)
245 Yes
1973 McKinzie, Richard D The New Deal for Artists 203 No
1973 Onn, Gerald (Translator) Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art 0 No
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1971 Porter, Allen/Wm McGonagle The Thirties Decade American Artists and Their European Contemporaries
(Exhibition catalog)
80 No
1970 Hope, Henry Radford (Essay) The American Scene 1900-1970 An Exhibition of twentieth century painting
(Exhibition catalog)
119 No
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1969 Doty, Robert Human Concern/Personal Torment The Grotesque in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
72 Yes
1969 Philbrook Art Center The American Sense of Reality
(Exhibition catalog)
56 No
1969 Shikes, Ralph E The Indignant Eye The Artist as Social Critic (15th Cen to Picasso) 439 No
1968 Kent, Norman (editor) Drawings by American Artists 127 No
1967 Walker, Lester C American Painting the 1940's
(Exhibition catalog)
40 No
1965 Whitney Museum A Decade of American Drawings 8th Exhibition Sponsored by Friends
(Exhibition catalog)
52 No
1964 Baur, John I H Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964
(Exhibition catalog)
91 Yes
1962 Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness Art U S A Now (2 volumes) 474 Yes
1961 Gaertner, Johannes A Prisma der Demokratie Ausdruck...der Malerei Amerikas
(Exhibition catalog)
84 No
1961 Hamilton (Canada) Art Gallery American Realists
(Exhibition catalog)
80 No
1957 Brooklyn Museum Golden Years of American Drawing 1905-1956
(Exhibition catalog)
72 No
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1951 Baur, John I H Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art 170 No
1951 Bazin, Germain/A Gloeckner History of Modern Painting 391 Yes
1949 Reese, Albert American Prize Prints of the 20th Century 257 No
1947 Slatkin, Charles/R Schoolman Treasury of American Drawings 176 No
1946 Gruskin, Alan D Painting in the U S A 223 Yes
1946 Pagano, Grace; Donald Bear (Intro) Contemporary American Painting 260 Yes
1944 The Art Institute of Chicago The Fifty-fifth Annual American Exhibition: Water Colors and Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)
22 No
1943 Miller, Dorothy/Alfred H Barr American Realists & Magic Realist
(Exhibition catalog)
67 No
1942 Wheeler, Monroe 20th Century Portraits
(Exhibition catalog)
148 Yes
1940 Hall, W. S. Eyes on America United States as Seen by Her Artists 150 Yes
1939 Boswell, Peyton Jr Modern American Painting 207 Yes
1939 Craven, Thomas (editor) A Treasury of American Prints 100 Etchings and Lithographs by Living Artists 210 No
1939 Museum of Modern Art Art in Our Time Exhibition, Tenth Anniversary MoMA
(Exhibition catalog)
320 No
1939 Watson, Forbes (essay) American Painting Today 179 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
Brock, Mark L. Selections II (Brock & Co.)
(Exhibition catalog)
46 Yes
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