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Robert Funk Fine Art
1581 Brickell Ave., Suite 2303
Miami, FL 33129 , United States
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Muscular Gay Men Mardi Gras - Daring Interracial Love Mid-Century - Gay Interest
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Description
The present mid-century work features two taboos in one painting. In 1949, it was verboten to glamorize gay life and even more prohibited to show interracial love. This work by Dan Atkinson combines both under the guise of a Mardi Gras theme.
A white man and a black man, with shirts off, display their ripples while they frolic with each other under romantic moonlight. Both have tight muscular bodies, and both are wearing equally tight pants. The long snake wrapping around the white man's leg is a very aggressive phallic statement - while his knee touches the thight of the black man.
This radical painting was created generations before its time and made an important early statement about gay and interracial life in America.
It is signed and dated lower right and inscribed on the verso. Dan Atkinson was shown at the famous Maxwell Galleries in San Francisco in the 1950s.
Framed in a period frame to 20 x 13 - More Information
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Robert Funk Fine Art in Miami offers an eclectic collection shaped by 45 years of experience, blending art with commercial perspectives. For inquiries or art advisory services, contact Robert Funk at decoypoet@yahoo.com or 305.857.0521.
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