Vibrant Visions = New Prints
Celebrating LGBTQ Creativity + History
As someone who regularly explores digital collections from museums worldwide, I'm always on the lookout for new and exciting works by LGBTQ artists or pieces that feature LGBTQ subjects.
While I don’t always know what I’m searching for, these three prints caught my eye and I knew they’d make fantastic additions to the Shop’s growing collection of Prints.
Thanks for reading and supporting my work!
Clint
Based on a popular race of the time, Thomas Eakins painted this in his studio based on preliminary sketches. It’s an iconic painting that is part of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. collection.
This ad by J.C. Leyendecker is a striking example of early 20th-century commercial art. Featuring an art deco monk, the ad exudes a sense of elegance and refinement typical of Leyendecker's work. Apropos of nothing (or something) a monk holds a bar of soap, accompanied by the tagline "Ivory Soap: It Floats." Of course it does.
Unless you drop it. On purpose.
This etching by Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada depicts the Dance Of the Forty-One, an event that took place on November 20, 1901, when 41 men wearing dresses and suits were arrested in a Mexico City dance hall.
It was the first time homosexuality was openly discussed in Mexican news. While the art is satirical, is it satirizing the dance…or the media and societal outrage?
Either way, it’s a striking, iconic image.
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