Vintage gay art from the moment somebody worked out you could photograph a handsome man, print him a thousand times and post him to strangers. Studio cabinet cards. Shirt ads and magazine covers that sold a jawline harder than the product. These prints come from that age of copying and collecting, hung beside retro gay art I make now in the same period manner, so the past keeps getting new arrivals. Gay vintage prints for walls that would rather look like a well-thumbed scrapbook than a showroom. Is it nostalgia? Partly. Is it flirting across a century? Absolutely.
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About this collection
Napoleon Sarony photographed Oscar Wilde in New York in 1882 and sold the result as a collectible card. Eugen Sandow flexed for the same studio and the fan mail never let up. Charles Eisenmann’s tattooed men travelled on cabinet cards, and Wilhelm von Gloeden’s Sicilian youths went out as postcards, which is about as public as a nude can get. Antique gay photos like these anchor the shelf, surrounded by antique gay art made to be copied.
Then the printing press caught up. Edward Penfield drew posters for Harper’s. J.C. Leyendecker painted rowers, footballers and sailors for Kuppenheimer ads and Collier’s covers. Wartime poster artists sent young men off in crisp uniforms, and Egon Schiele and F.C.B. Cadell filled sketchbooks with vintage gay drawings that still feel wet. Posters, modernist canvases from Marsden Hartley and Charles Demuth, old art made to be pinned up and passed hand to hand. Some of it is frank vintage erotic art, the kind collectors once filed under vintage male erotica. Most of it just stares back, pleased with itself. After paintings in the classical tradition instead? Gay Classic Art is next door.
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Any treasure you find here can be shipped to:
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Africa
South Africa
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Australia, New Zealand
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Why the wait? Every treasure you find here is produced after you purchase. So the delivery times include production, quality assurance, thoughtful packaging and shipping. More details on orders and shipping
Every package tracked so you can watch your treasure move from A to B to You.
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Double Trouble - Vintage Gay Tea Dance Art Print
Boy Next Door - 18th Century Gay Erotica Art Print
Wrestlers - William Etty Art Print
Buggering the Russian Art Print
Last Dance - Luxe Vintage Gay Rave Art Print
Man Posing Naked on a Rocky Outcrop - Edwin Nichol Fallaize Art Print
Man Reading in Circle, Arrow Collar Ad (1916) - J.C. Leyendecker Art Print
Oarsman - J.C. Leyendecker Art Print
Portrait of Maurice Deriaz - Gustave Courtois Art Print
Football Player - J.C. Leyendecker Art Print
Suck It Up - Neo-Victorian Gay BDSM Art Print
The Boxer - Konstantin Andreevic Somov Art Print
Covent Garden - William Bruce Ellis Ranken Art Print
Fernando - Gay Mexican Vaquero Art Print
Presley - Gay Black Twunk Cowboy Art Print
Lysander - Gay Black Dandy Cowboy Art Print
Titus - Gay Black Dandy Cowboy Art Print
Costume Plate (Homme de l'Isle de Naxia) - Jacques Grasset de Saint Sauveur Art Print
Two Tars - Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell Art Print
Two Jacks - Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell Art Print
Sailors - Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell Art Print
Rainbow Devil - Lanny Sommese Art Print
The Joke - Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell Art Print
Going on Leave - Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell Art Print
Night of the Amazons - Ludwig Hohlwein Art Print
Nude Man from the Back - Hermann Heid Art Print
Sunbaker - Max Dupain Art Print
