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With Paul Cadmus, a babyfaced, 35-year-old Manhattan painter, a favorite subject has always been the U. S. Navy gamboling on shore leave among tousled trollops and floozies. Six years ago, when one of Cadmus' shore-leave frolics was hung in a Public Works of Art Project exhibition in Washington's Corcoran Gallery, the late Admiral Hugh Rodman, U.S.N. got good & mad. Said he: "It represents a most disgraceful, sordid, disreputable drunken brawl wherein apparently a number of enlisted men are consorting with a party of streetwalkers. . . . This is an unwarranted insult. . . ." Painter Cadmus' canvas...
...Thanks to the Navy," wrote Artist Paul Cadmus to the director of Manhattan's Midtown Galleries several weeks ago, "I have not previously found it necessary to have a one-man show. But now . should like to see, a group of my paintings shown in your galleries." Director Alan D. Gruskin went to work, and last week opened the first one-man show of 32-year-old Artist Cadmus. Around the walls sailors tousled their trollops, perverts beckoned from a cafeteria washroom, sagbellied Babbitts diddled in Y.M.C.A. locker rooms, slatterns rioted on public beaches, for these are the principal...
When Artist Cadmus talks about his dependence on the U. S. Navy, he means its 78-year-old veteran Admiral Hugh Rodman. In 1933, already spotted by scouts as a promising etcher with a strong satiric bent, Paul Cadmus returned from two years in Majorca, found commissions hard to get. From the Public Works of Art Project he received an average of $35 a week to stay in his own studio, paint what he liked. What he liked was a group of U. S. sailors having raucous and somewhat indecent fun with their molls on Riverside Drive. He called...
...Paul Cadmus reputation was made by the Navy's pother. Since then his pictures have been bought by five U. S. museums. Sponsored by the Treasury Department Art Project, he recently completed four mural panels entitled Aspects of Suburban Life, three of which have been assigned to the billiard room of the American Legation Building at Ottawa. In these murals, exhibited in last week's show, shop girls stroll on main street, paunchy tycoons play golf, social climbers watch a polo game...
...buttery fingers, critics inspected 246 prints by practically all the best known etchers in the U. S., found prices ($4 to $36 a print) reasonable, technical excellence uniformly high and subject matter more than a little dull, despite the presence of a few startling prints by Reginald Marsh, Paul Cadmus, Harry Sternberg. Quite lacking in false modesty is the society's president, John Taylor Arms. His annual prize for the best piece of technical execution he entrusts to no jury, awards on his own hook to a print of his own choosing for reasons of his own. He gave...