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Shore Leave

1935
20th 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

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