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PAUL CADMUS Dancer with Blue Headband (NM 208).
Color crayons on greenish tan wove paper, 1987. 362x490 mm; 14 1/4x19 3/8 inches. Signed and titled in white crayon, upper left recto.
Exhibited DC Moore Gallery, New York; Midtown Payson Galleries, New York; and the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Maine, with the labels on the frame back.
Ex-collection the Paul Cadmus estate; Jon F. Anderson and Philis Raskind-Anderson, Connecticut.
Having no doubts concerning the artistic path he wished to take, Paul Cadmus (1904-1999) entered the National Academy of Design in 1919 at the age of just 15. He began studying classical drawing under Charles Hinton, who had attended the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he studied under Jean-Léon Gérôme and William-Adolphe Bouguereau, both significant figures in the French academic tradition. Cadmus thus became linked to an important lineage of classical painters (an influence which greatly informed his technique and style). Even as artistic tides began to shift in America, and Abstract Expressionism reigned supreme at mid-century, with realism out of vogue, Cadmus stayed fiercely independent and never strayed from his preferred classical, traditionally-inspired technique and realist manner.
