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GEORGE QUAINTANCE (1902 - 1957)
Summer's Day. Oil on Canvas. Signed, Quaintance, and inscribed as titled on stretcher. 610x610 mm; 24x24. Circa 1940.
Quaintance was one of the early American pioneers of homoerotic fantasy art. His illustrations for Physique Pictorial magazine in the early 1950s helped to popularize his work. While best known for his images of overtly masculine and campy cowboys, gods, matadors, and other idealized physical specimens, he was also an accomplished portrait painter and landscapist. Outside of his portraiture, there are few known images of women in his oeuvre.
