George Quaintance

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George Quaintance (born June 2, 1902 in Page County ( Virginia ), † November 8, 1957 in Los Angeles ) was an American dancer , hairdresser , photographer , painter and illustrator , who was known for his homoerotic drawings.

biography

Quaintance grew up on a farm and showed a talent for art at an early age. Even as a teenager, Quaintance was described as "obviously and actively homosexual" even though he never came out. At the age of 18 he began to study painting, drawing and dance at the Art Students League in New York . It was there that he met his wife Miriam Chester. In the 1930s he worked as a hairdresser . His first art products appeared anonymously while working in advertising, but by 1934 he had started contributing free cover art to a variety of "spicy" pulp magazines , such as Vie gai français , Ginger , Movie Humor , Movie Merry Go-Round , Snappy Detective Mysteries , Snappy Stories , Stolen Sweets and Tempting Tales . These works of art were sold in pubs and in newspaper stands under the counter. The illustrations contained therein, which were clearly influenced by Enoch Bolles, were often referred to by him as "Geo. Quintana." signed

In 1938 he returned home with his companion Victor Garcia. This was described by Quaintance as his "model, life partner and business partner" and was also the model for many Quaintance photographs in the 1940s. In the early 1950s, Quaintance and Garcia moved to Rancho Siesta, which became the home of the Quaintance studio. In 1953, Quaintance completed a series of three paintings about a matador modeled on Angel Avila, another of his mistresses. By 1956 the company was so successful that Quaintance could not keep up with the demand for its works.

George Quaintance died of a heart attack in 1957.

Exhibitions

In 2015, Taschen-Verlag devoted a comprehensive exhibition to his works in Los Angeles under the title The Flamboyant Life And Forbidden Art of George Quaintance .

Works

  • Bob Mizer (Ed.): Complete Reprint of Physique Pictorial, 1951-1964 , Cologne, Taschen , 1997.
  • Volker Janssen: The Art of George Quaintance , Simon's Town, South Africa, Janssen Publishers CC, 2003.
  • Reed Massengill, Dian Hanson: Quaintance , Taschen ISBN 978-3-8365-0732-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Purple Magazine: “The Flamboyant Life and Forbidden Art of George Quaintance” Opening at Taschen Gallery, Los Angeles , accessed April 7, 2016
  2. ↑ Website of the gallery: The Flamboyant Life and Forbidden Art of George Quaintance - High Camp Erotic Art at the TASCHEN Gallery ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 7, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.taschen.com
personal data
SURNAME Quaintance, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American dancer, hairdresser, photographer, painter, and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Page County ( Virginia )
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1957
Place of death los Angeles