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Paul Cadmus

(American, 1904–1999)

Paul Cadmus

Portrait of Ralph McWilliams

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Paul Cadmus

Going South, 1934

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Paul Cadmus

Two Boys on a Beach #1, 1938

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Paul Cadmus

Greenwich Village Cafeteria, ca. 1934

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Paul Cadmus

Coney Island, 1935

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Paul Cadmus

Coney Island, 1935

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Paul Cadmus

Study for the Bath, ca. 1951

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Paul Cadmus

Study for David and Goliath #1, 1971

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Paul Cadmus

Study for Model and Artist #b, 1993

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Paul Cadmus

Study for Book Buff #b, 1994

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Paul Cadmus

Nudo #2, 1984

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Paul Cadmus

Nudo #1, 1984

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Paul Cadmus

Nudo #3, 1984

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Paul Cadmus

Preliminary Study for Dancer at Piano #2, 1966

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Paul Cadmus

Male Nude NM159, 1979

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Paul Cadmus

Sleeping Nude NM145, ca. 1975

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Paul Cadmus

Male Nude NM49, 1967

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Paul Cadmus

Seated Nude JS35

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Paul Cadmus

Preliminary Study for Winter #C, 1977

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Paul Cadmus

Male Nude 31a, 1966

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Biography

Timeline

1904: Born in New York, NY
1919 - 1925: Studied at National Academy of Design, New York, NY
1928: Art Students League, New York, NY
1931 - 1933: Traveled through Italy with painter Jared French
1999: Died in Weston, CT

Exhibitions

2006: The Figure in American Painting and Drawing, 1985–2005, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
Lines of Discovery: 225 Years of American Drawings, The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
2005: Paul Cadmus: Centennial Exhibition, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Society of American Graphic Artists 90th Anniversary Exhibition, The Art Students League of New York, New York, NY
In Private Hands: 200 Years of American Painting, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Eye Contact: Painting and Drawing in American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
A Body of Work: The Human Figure from Degas to Diebenkorn, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI; National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2004: Paul Cadmus: The Magic Realist, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH (solo)
Paul Cadmus: Human in Form, O'Kane Gallery, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TX (solo)
Paul Cadmus: Prints and Drawings, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH (solo)
Paul Cadmus, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA (solo)
Art in America: 1909–1959, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY
The Art of Reading, Poets House, New York, NY
The Nude, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
American and Contemporary Masters, Southport Harbor Gallery, Southport, CT
Drawings VII, Koplin Del Rio, West Hollywood, CA
When I Think About You I Touch Myself: An Exhibition on the Sociability of Artworks, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Masters and Mavericks, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Everyday Mysteries: Modern and Contemporary Still Life, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
The Muse, organized in collaboration with Amy Wolf Fine Art, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY
2003: The Way They See It, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Modern & Contemporary Portraits, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
American Expressionism: Art and Social Change, 1920s - 1950s, Columbus Museum of Art, OH; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Kennedy Galleries, New York, NY; Block Museum at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Family Ties: A Contemporary Perspective, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
2002: Paul Cadmus: The Male Nude 1950-1998, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Paul Cadmus: At Home with an American Master, Silvermine Guild Galleries, New Canaan, CT (solo)
Modern Metropolis, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
A Century on Paper: Prints by Art Students League Artists, 1901-2001, UBS Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York, NY
Milk and Eggs: The American Revival of Tempera Paintings 1930-1950, Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA; Akron Museum of Art, OH, Spenser Museum of Art ,University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2001: PaJaMa, George Platt Lynes, Martin-Zambito Fine Art, Seattle, WA
Self-Made Men, curated by Alexi Worth, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
ReAppearance: Realism in Contemporary Art, Simmons Visual Arts Center, Brenau University Galleries, Gainesville, GA
Re-presenting Representation, organized by The Arnot Art Museum, The Corning Gallery, New York, NY
American Voices, Whitney Musuem of American Art, New York, NY
Cadmus, French, Tooker, The Columbus Museum of Art , Columbus, OH
2000: Sensual Lines, Ameican Figurative Drawings, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
The Male Form in Contemporary Art, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, CA
Horse—The Male As Sexual Entity, Ron Judish Fine Arts, Denver, CO
Illusions of Eden: Visions of the American Heartland, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Museum of Modern Art/Ludwig Foundation Vienna, Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna, Austria; Ludwig Museum/Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Washington Pavilion of Arts & Science, Sioux Falls, SD
League Masters Then: A Selection of Works by Artists Associated with The Art Students League of New York, The Art Students League, New York, NY
Private Realisms: American Paintings 1934–1949, Master’s House, Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Figures and Forms: Selections from the Terra Foundation for the Arts, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL
Making Choices 1929-1955, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Love Everlasting, The Art of Romance Through the Millennia, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
1999: Paul Cadmus, National Academy of Design Museum, New York, NY (solo)
Paul Cadmus, Sketches, PMW Gallery, Stamford, CT (solo)
Paul Cadmus: A Selection of Prints 1924-1985, Pollock Gallery, Division of Art, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX (solo)
horsePLAY, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Here’s Looking at You: Portraits from the Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Art in the Garden, The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT
Summer Group Exhibition, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Magic Realism: America’s Response to Surrealism, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
The Museum Collects II: Treasures of Twenty Years, Miami University Art Gallery, Oxford, OH
The American Century 1900-1950, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Nude in Contemporary Art, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet, The New York Historical Society, New York, NY
Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection from the National Museum of American Art, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
1998: Paul Cadmus 90 Years of Drawing, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
The Risk of Existence, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY
In the Face of Abstraction, The Work of Paul Cadmus, John Koch, Edward Melcarth, and Walter Stuempfig, The Forbes Magazine Collection, New York, NY
Julien Levy: Portrait of an Art Gallery, Equitable Art Gallery, New York, NY
C: Paul Cadmus, Peter Cain, Maurizio Cattelan, Vija Celmins, Larry Clark, Chuck Close, Bruce Conner, Elizabeth Cherry Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ
Ideal and Reality—The Classical Nude in XXth Century Art from Bonnard to Warhol, Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria
Bathroom, curated by Wayne Koestenbaum, Thomas Healy Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Selections from The National Academy at Silvermine, Silvermine Guild Galleries, New Canaan, CT
An Exhibition Inspired by Paul Cummings: Drawings, Paintings, and Sculpture, Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York, NY
Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
1997: Paul Cadmus – A Closer Look, Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University, New Haven, CT (solo)
Paul Cadmus, Visionary Realist, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (solo)
Chuck Close/Paul Cadmus: In Dialogue, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
Drawings amd Etchings by Paul Cadmus, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME (solo)
Realism in 20th Century American Painting, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 3—American Realities, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Contemporary Figures, MB Modern, New York, NY
Civil Progress: Images of Black America, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
1996 - 1997: Readers, The Grolier Club, New York, NY
1996: Paul Cadmus: Drawings from the 1990s, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Collection in Context: Paul Cadmus, The Sailor Trilogy, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY (solo)
Classicism in the Twentieth Century, Lizan-Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY
In Pursuit of Life’s Pleasures, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
Physiognomies, Associated American Artists, New York, NY Visions of America: Urban Realism 1900–1945, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico; The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Deformations: Aspects of the Modern Grotesque, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1995: Paul Cadmus: The Seven Deadly Sins and Selections from the Permanent Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (solo)
Inaugural Exhibition, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings Selected by Paul Cummings, The Century Association, New York, NY
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Printmakers’ Patron, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
1994: A Collection of Works by Paul Cadmus—The Robert E. White, Jr. Collection, Columbus Museum of Art (solo); The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
90th Birthday Celebration, National Academy of Design, New York, NY (solo)
Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, NY (solo)
Life Lines: American Master Drawings, 1788–1962, from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY; Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL; The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MI; The Museums at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY; The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
Who Needs A Bathing Suit, Anyway? Naked Men and Women in American Art, Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, NY
Eros & Identity, Stuart Levy Fine Art, New York, NY
The Luster of Graphite, Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, ME
Group Exhibition, Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, NY
Trees, Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, NY
American Art, 1900–1940, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1993: Midtown Payson Galleries, Hobe Sound, FL (solo)
P. S. Lane Gallery, Key West, FL (solo)
Re-presenting Representation, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
Small Works for the Holidays, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Spheres of Influence: Artists and Their Teachers in the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT
In The Classical Vein: Works from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Modern Masters: Paintings and Works on Paper, Associated American Artists, New York, NY
Self-aMUSEd; the Contemporary Artist as Observer and Observed, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Photographs from the Collection of Carlton Willers, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Des Moines, IA
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Modernism and American Painting, Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL
The Artist as Subject: Paul Cadmus, Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, NY
Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
1992: The Fleet’s In! Paintings by Paul Cadmus, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC (solo)
Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA (solo)
Figurative Works from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Human Conditions: American 20th Century Paintings & Drawings, Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
Man Revealed, Graham Modern, New York, NY
1991 - 1992: Sport in Art from American Museums, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY
1991: Grinnel College, Grinnell, IA (solo)
Midtown Galleries, New York, NY (solo)
American Life in American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
American Drawings, American Prints, Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, NY
1990: An Artist’s Christmas, Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, NY
Close Encounters: The Art of Paul Cadmus, Jared French and George Tooker, Midtown Galleries, New York, NY
Cadmus, French and Tooker The Early Years, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY
Facing History: The Black Image in American Art, 1710– 1940, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
The Reflective Image: American Drawings 1910–1960, Midtown Galleries, New York, NY
1989: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Straphangers, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY
Coney Island of the Mind, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York, NY
1988: Enduring Creativity, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, CT
The Member’s Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1987: City Life: New York in the 1930s, Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York, NY
1986: Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1985: American Drawings and Watercolors from the Amherst College Collection, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY
The Fine Line: Drawing with Silver in America, Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
1983: Whitney Museum, Stamford, CT
Artists Choice Museum, New York, NY
Tweed Art Gallery, Plainsfield, NJ
Bucknell Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
1982: Realisms and Realities, Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
The Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
1981 - 1982: Paul Cadmus, Yesterday and Today, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH (solo); Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS; Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, SC; William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1981: Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL
1980: Academie Der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
1979: Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN
1975: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1971: The American Foundation of the Arts from the Sara Roby Collection, Washington, DC
1968: University of Miami, Oxford, OH
1967: Palm Beach Galleries, Palm Beach, FL (solo)
1965: Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI
1963: Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts, Columbus, OH
1950: Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
1943: American Realists and Magic Realists, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1942: Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, MD
1940: Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, CA

Public Collections

: Naval Historical Center, Washington, DC
: Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
: McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
: Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Boston, MA
: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
: The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
: Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
: National Academy of Design, New York, NY
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
: The Morgan Library, New York, NY
: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
: Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
: Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, PA
: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO

Literature

2002: Spring, Justin. Paul Cadmus: The Male Nude. New York: Universe, 2002
1989: Davenport, Guy. The Drawings of Paul Cadmus. New York: Rizzoli, 1989

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Biography

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