George Quaintance (American, 1902-1957), Nudes Emerging Through A Water Lily. 1937

Physique Pictorial magazine by Bob Mizer featured AMG models and artists Tom of Finland, George Quaintance and Etienne (not pictured) [x]

George Quaintance (American,1902-1957)  

Night in the Desert, 1951

Glenn Bishop by George Quaintanance (1957)

Bob Spahn by George Quaintance

George Quaintance

george quaintance 1950

Physique Pictorial magazine - Vol. 9, #1 - July 1959. Artwork by Spartacus.

By George Quaintance

…nice chaps we got here

George Quaintance In The Arms Of Morpheus

George Quaintance, The Praying Matador, 1953

PotD_1949_GeorgeQuaintance : SaturdayNight 1954 

George Quaintance (American,1902-1957)  

Rainbow Falls, 1954

“As art historian Christopher Reed argues, ‘The Wilde trials seemed to reveal homosexuality as the secret behind the enigmatic passions of the Aesthetes, tainting the entire movement, all of its products, and even the idea of aesthetic sensitivity.’

Indeed, the modern identities of ‘the homosexual’ and ‘the artist’— both considered manifestations of innate predispositions—developed nearly simultaneously in the nineteenth century, as both creating art and committing sodomy moved from activities to ways of being. ‘Artistic’ quickly became euphemistic slang for ‘queer.’ Painter Paul Cadmus remembered how the association had transferred to the American scene by the 1930s. ‘They just said, ‘He’s an artist.’’ American psychiatrists, too described men suspected of homosexuality as ‘aesthetic in temperament.’ Thus when [Bob] Mizer [influential founder of the homoerotic Physique Pictorial magazine] adopted this language, praising [artist George] Quaintance for his ‘neo-aestheticism’ and imagining his audience as ‘the limited aesthetic group,’ he was signaling to and helping construct a distinct gay identity among his readers.”

David K. Johnson, Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepeneurs Sparked a Movement

Ever since I came upon Idyll by George Quaintance, it’s giving me nothing but Snowbaz vibes. From the way both men have similarities to Baz and Simon to the romantic longing the art shows. I have a head canon that when Simon and Baz get their own home, they’ll have this panting hanging up in their bedroom or personal bathroom along with a couple other works from Quaintance.

George Quaintance, Orpheus and Hades, c.1947