Dancing Sailors - Charles Demuth Art Print

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Luscious artist-grade cotton canvas, hand-stretched and finely textured, gives every detail depth and precision, catching light and color with striking clarity. While a precisely measured floating frame leaves a slim gap around the canvas, so it seems to hover with a sleek, gallery-worthy effect. Finished with your choice of frame color — black, white or natural — made from sustainably sourced FSC® certified knotless pine.

Giclée Printing

Dancing Sailors crowds three navy boys onto a harlequin floor of slate gray and soot-black diamonds, each clasping a partner close enough to share a pulse. Sailor collars flap loose, piped in white, like pages torn from a shore leave diary.  Two young men lock arms at center, rocking hip to hip. And Charles Demuth scrawls his name above the tiles like a bar tab.

In 1917 America entered World War I, and Manhattan's ports swelled with bluejackets hungry for a night of passion and excess. Demuth, a Lancaster, Pennsylvania dandy who haunted Greenwich Village cabarets and vaudeville halls, watched them closely. His watercolor blots bloom across their uniforms in cobalt and ultramarine mottles, pooling at the seat of their trousers with open appetite. A blond sailor holds a brown-haired young man, and nobody objects.

Behind them, Cubist arcs of cream and ochre swing like searchlights sweeping a harbor. A plum skirt swirls. A pink flower tilts on a green hat. This homoerotic watercolor print keeps a gay modernist secret in plain view, painted by a man who knew exactly where to look. Hang it where the music never stops.

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