Intimate Companions

"From the late 1920s through the early 1950s, photographer George Platt Lynes, painter Paul Cadmus, and critic Lincoln Kirstein helped to create a new aesthetic and redefine the institutions of the American art world. With an overlapping circle of friends, lovers, collaborators, and models, Platt Lynes, Cadmus, and Kirstein created a world of gay aesthetics and desire in art that was astonishing at the time and remarkable even today. Through hours of conversation with surviving members of their circle as well as unprecedented access to papers, journals, and previously unreleased photographs, David Leddick has vividly brought to life the lives and loves, connections and interconnections, and the inspirations and influences of this vanished art world. Meticulously researched, completely forthright, and lavishly illustrated, Intimate Companions is a celebration of the art, lives, and impact of this groundbreaking circle."--Back cover