Found on the Beach, 2011

This is a reproduction of "Found on the Beach" of 2011.  Who is this young man found alone and naked on the beach on South Padre Island?  Seriously, if anyone knows the name of this model, I'd appreciate your letting me know.

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Friends, Troy Caperton, 2008

A reproduction of "Friends" of 2008. Abstract depiction of two male friends.

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Modern Wrestlers, 2009

A reproduction of "Wrestlers" of 2009. This is an attempt to capture the close muscular competition that is the essence of wrestling.

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Found in the Bath, 2008

A reproduction of "Found in the Bath" of 2008. This is an image and allegory of unwanted discovery.

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Grieving Patroklos

This is a reproduction of “Grieving Patroklos” of 2007. The work attempts to reproduce the famous grief and rage of Achilles at the death of his lover Patroklos as portrayed in Homer’s Iliad. For all the ages of man there have been men who, for whatever reason, have preferred the particular eroticism which is only available between men. This is an effort to capture some of that glory.

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Wrestlers, Thomas Eakins

This is a reproduction of Thomas Eakins’ classic, “Wrestlers” of 1899.  This is one of Eakins’ greatest works and the lst completed genre painting.  It dramatically portrays interplay of masculine muscles in a wrestling match apparently being waged in a gymnasium.  It is the last sports painting of the master as well as his last study of the male form.  Eakins was fifty-five years old when this was completed.  This major work is an American expression of the realistic academicians yet it has subtle marks which extend it into a more modern realm.  The half figures cut off by the right frame, the meandering length of rope in the background and the juxtaposition of taut and loosened skin all point to a modern eye.  Thomas Eakins died seventeen years after he produced this painting which is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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After the Bathe by Henry Scott Tuke

A reproduction of "After the Bathe" of 1902 by Henry Scott Tuke. This is a wonderful image of young men cavorting on the coast of the English Channel near Falmouth. The artist was a native of Yorkshire who died in 1929 at the age of seventy-one years. His twin abiding loves were the sea and boys. This caused quite a stir in Victorian and Edwardian England, but he was nonetheless a member of the Royal Academy.

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Club Night, George Wesley Bellows

A reproduction of "Club Night" by George Wesley Bellows of 1907. This wonderful work is also known as "Stag Night at Starkey's" and is an early work of the American Master. Bellows was born in Ohio and moved to New York City at the age of 25. He became associated with the Ashcan School which advocated the painting of contemporary urban life. He won fame in that genre which he retained for the rest of life which ended in 1925. This is an early work which wonderfully displays Bellow's commitment to contemporary American life and recreation.

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Sunning on a Rock, Troyi Caperton, 2011

This is a reproduction of “Sunning on a Rock” of 2011. This is an image of the sheer joy of exposing the entire natural self to the cleansing and healing rays of the sun, the parent from which we all descend.  In the wilds of nature we can expose ourselves totally without fear of having others encroach upon our private meditations.

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Alexandre Thurneyssen als Hirtenknabe, Auguste Renoir

This masterpiece, originally named Alexandre Thurneyssen als Hirtenknabe, was created in 1911 by Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). The work is from the master’s latter years when he lived on a farm near the French Mediterranean coast at Cagnes-sur-Mer. This a fine example of the warm sensuality for which Renoir was known. This painting is currently in the Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island.

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Colossus, Francisco de Goya, 1811

This masterpiece by Francisco de Goya was created in about 1811. It depicts a gigantic monster who may results the gargantuan effects of war upon the mass of humanity. The Spanish genius died in Bordeaux, France in 1828 at the age of 82 years. This masterpiece is now in Museo Prado in Madrid.

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