Paul Cadmus died at home in Weston, Connecticut on 12 December 1999, a few days short of his 95th birthday. Earlier this year, he curated a wonderful exhibition entitled “Men without women” drawn from the collections of the National Academy of Design in New York. Obituaries appeared in the New York times (Dec. 15, 1999, by Holland Cotter) and in the New York blade news (Dec. 17, 1999, by David Noh).
Tee A. Corinne will receive a Lambda Award for lifetime service from the Abdill-Ellis Lambda Community Center in Ashland, Oregon on January 15. Tee has been a co-chair of GLC, as well as active in Women’s Caucus for Art and other organizations. Her art and books have been widely hailed. For more information, contact Tee at tcorinne@magick.net or see http://www.queer-arts.org (archives) or http://www.netdreams.com/registry/corinne or http://www.sla.purdue.edu/WAAW/ Corinne/index.html
Photographer Lon of New York (Alonzo Hanagan) died on 4 December 1999 in New York. His career as a physique photographer from the 1930s ended in the early 1960s after yet another arrest for mailing nude photographs. He had done some new photographs in the last few years and had his first one-man show at Wessel + O’Connor Gallery in New York in spring 1999. (obiturary by Wayne Hoffman in New York blade news, Dec. 17, 1999)
Ann Meredith has moved from New York to Berkeley. She will exhibit her color abstract cibachrome photographs “Manhattan suite” at Bronner.com in San Francisco, January-February 2000.
Richard Martin, curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum and author of numerous articles and catalogs on gay and other topics, died in New York, aged 52, on 8 November 1999. Before his stint at the Costume Institute, Richard had been editor of Arts magazine and he had worked at the Fashion Institute of Technology and elsewhere.
Pictures and passions by James Saslow (reviewed in the September issue) has been selected for sale by Quality Paperback Book Club. http://www.qpb.com Jim discussed his book at A Different Light bookstore (New York) on November 10th and at Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation on December 4th.