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Shore Leave
193520th century
10 in. x 11 1/8 in. (25.4 cm x 28.26 cm)
Paul Cadmus, American, (1904–1999)
Object Type:
Prints
Creation Place:
North America, United States
Medium and Support:
Etching on paper
Credit Line:
Carleton College Art Collection, gift of Gerard R. Pomerat on behalf of Dr. Charles M. Pomerat
Accession Number:
1997.278
Carleton is lucky to have this 1930s original edition print by Paul Cadmus (1904–99, United States). It is a raucous scene of sailors carousing with women by an artist best known for mural-scale paintings. In fact, Cadmus did a large-scale painting for the U.S. Department of the Navy that was rejected because the admiral in charge felt it wasn't a wholesome way to present American sailors. The irony is that Cadmus was gay—even in Shore Leave you see particular attention paid to the male anatomy.
The etching is from a group of prints, mostly cityscapes and landscapes by 19th- and early-20th-century European and American printmakers, given to Carleton by the Pomerat family of Texas. They were friends of Thurlo Thomas, a zoology professor at Carleton from 1946 to 1973.
- Laurel Bradley, Carleton College Calendar, 2005
The etching is from a group of prints, mostly cityscapes and landscapes by 19th- and early-20th-century European and American printmakers, given to Carleton by the Pomerat family of Texas. They were friends of Thurlo Thomas, a zoology professor at Carleton from 1946 to 1973.
- Laurel Bradley, Carleton College Calendar, 2005
Keywords
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20th Century,
21st Century,
American*,
Contemporary*,
etching (printing process)*,
etchings (prints)*,
paper (fiber product)*,
prints (visual works)*
- 20th Century
- 21st Century
- American - Refers to the context of or associated specifically with the modern political entity of the United States of America.
- Contemporary - Refers to painting, sculpture, graphic arts, and architecture dating from the recent past and present. It differs from modern art in that the term 'contemporary art' does not carry the implication of a non-traditional style, but instead refers only to the time period in which the work was created. 'Modern' and 'contemporary' are inherently fluid terms. The term 'contemporary' is sometimes more narrowly used to refer to art from ca. 1960 or 1970 up to the present.
- etching (printing process) - Intaglio process in which the design is worked into an acid-resistant substance coating the metal printing plate; the plate is then exposed to acid, which etches the plate where the metal is exposed, to create lines and dark areas. For the single step of exposing the plate to acid, use "biting."
- etchings (prints) - Prints made from an etched printing plate, which is a metal plate on which a design is made by coating the plate with an acid-resistant substance, creating a design in the coating, and then exposing the plate to acid, which etches the plate where the metal is exposed. For designs incised directly into a copper plate using a burin or graver, use "engravings (prints)."
- paper (fiber product) - Refers generally to all types of matted or felted sheets or webs of fiber formed and dried on a fine screen from a pulpy water suspension. The fibers may be animal, such as hair, silk or wool, or mineral, such as asbestos, or synthetic. However most paper is made from cellulosic plant fiber, such as from wood pulp, grass, cotton, linen, and straw.
- prints (visual works) - Pictorial works produced by transferring images by means of a matrix such as a plate, block, or screen, using any of various printing processes. When emphasizing the individual printed image, use "impressions." Avoid the controversial expression "original prints," except in reference to discussions of the expression's use. If prints are neither "reproductive prints" nor "popular prints," use just "prints." With regard to photographs, see "photographic prints"; for types of reproductions of technical drawings and documents, see terms found under "reprographic copies."
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Contemporary American Painting , 9/1/2017 - 3/14/2018
Dimensions
- image Dimensions: 10 in. x 11 1/8 in. (25.4 cm x 28.26 cm)
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