PAUL CADMUS 1904-1999 New York 2

Personal life From 1937 until the early 1950s, Cadmus, his lover, Jared French, and French's wife, Margaret French, formed a photographic collective called PaJaMa ("Paul, Jared, and Margaret").[22] During vacations in Saltaire, New York, Fire Island and later Provincetown, Massachusetts and Nantucket, the trio photographed each other on the beach and indoors, donning makeshift costumes and using found objects as props to create scenes of Magic Realism. They passed around Margaret's Leica camera, becoming subjects and makers in turn.[23][24] Many of their friends were featured in the photographs — they were among New York's young artists, dancers, and writers, and most were handsome and gay.[22] Among those photographed were Tennessee Williams, Glenway Wescott, Monroe Wheeler, Donald Windham, Todd Bolender, Bernard Perlin, Chuck Howard, Ted Starkowski,[25] Christopher Isherwood, and Paul Cadmus's sister Fidelma and her husband Lincoln Kirstein.[26] Cadmus and French also posed for photographs with the noted photographer George Platt Lynes (1907–1955). These photographs were not published or exhibited while Lynes was living and show the intimacy and relationship of the two.[27] From 1944-1949, Cadmus was involved with artist George Tooker, forming a complicated relationship with French and his wife.[28] When the Frenches bought a home in Hartland, Vermont, they gave Cadmus a house of his own on the property, which French later took back and gave to his Italian lover.[4] In 1965, Cadmus met and began a relationship with Jon (Farquhar) Anderson (July 30, 1937, New Haven, Connecticut - October 21, 2018, Weston, Connecticut).[29][30] The relationship with Anderson, a former Nantucket cabaret singer 32 years younger than Cadmus, lasted until Cadmus' death in 1999.[31] During their 35-year relationship,[31] Anderson was Cadmus' model and muse in many of his works.[14] Cadmus was also close friends with many illustrious artists, authors, and dancers including Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden, George Balanchine, George Platt Lynes, Lincoln Kirstein (his brother-in-law), and E. M. Forster,[2] who was said to have read his novel Maurice aloud while Cadmus painted his portrait,[18] which was printed in 1200 copies of a pamphlet The New Disorder[32] in 1949.[33] In 1999, he died at his home in Weston, Connecticut,[34] due to advanced age, five days before his 95th birthday https://aglutinart.blogspot.com/