Cadmus, Paul Biography

American painter, son of commercial artists. He studied in New York and worked in adver­tising. From 1933 on he worked for the 'Federal Art Project. Cadmus’s paintings, often illustrating in Renaissance detail and his precise technique themes of youthful lust and isolation, have a dreamlike atmosphere though their themes are so realistic, and so he has been seen as a "'Magic Realist of the American school.

Cadmus’s famous paintings include:

• Bicyclists
• Shore Leave
• Y.M.C.A. Locker Room
• Greenwich Village Cafeteria
• Coney Island
• Reflection
• Arabesque
• The Shower
• Night in Bologna
  

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