Jared French -- Cavalrymen Crossing a River -- 1939.

>> French's central mural for the Parcel Post Building in Richmond, Virginia, is now displayed at the Lewis F. Powell Jr. United States Courthouse. "Life" magazine reported that French painted himself into the mural as the figure wearing suspenders.<<

I find it fascinating to see the implicit but powerful eroticism at work in a 1930s New Deal art commission.

Image: By Carol M. Highsmith - Library of Congress Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2010719844 -- Wikimedia Commons

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Portraits by Italian born artist Luigi Lucioni (1900-1988)

The artist was part of a New York art scene that included Paul Cadmus, Jared French and photographer Carl Van Vechten

1) Artist Jared French, 1930
2) Artist Paul Cadmus, 1928
3) Portrait of Bob, 1936

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