Delmas Howe
Study of Tim
Oil on canvas
20" x 16"

Victor Gadino
Untitled
Pencil on paper
24" x 18"

The. Titolo
Untitled, 1958
Drypoint
14" x 11"

David Morgan
The Kiss, 1991
B/W photo
10" x 8"

Recent Gifts and Acquisitions
Edited and compiled by Wayne Snellen

We are pleased to announce and thank the following collectors and artists who have so generously donated work to Leslie-Lohman in the last quarter of 2003. These works have greatly enhanced and expanded our collection. Some of the works have already appeared in shows at Leslie-Lohman and others will be exhibited in the coming year. So please watch our schedule so you can catch some of these gems. And again, thank you one and all.

From Collectors:
Nicholas V. McCausland, collector, 11 pieces. Nick is a member of the LLGAF Advisory Committee. His role in that aspect of LLGAF is invaluable. His gift includes, Paul Cadmus,’ Horseplay, etching, Ed: 31/35; Ed Cervone’s, Untitled, 1980, a barn sex scenario of three semi-clothed men; two Nino Di Taveri’s, Untitled, 1977, polychrome plaster sculpture of a phallus with face; and another, Untitled, multimedia sculpture of a head with dog-like ears and phallus on top, nails stick out from under ears and cover the penis shaft and thumbnail gay sex cartoons cover the face and neck; Delmas Howe’s, Study of Tim, oil on canvas (pictured at left); Goh Mishima’s, Untitled, print of a nude male adorned with fish tattoos; three David Morgan photographs, Untitled, 1991, B/W photo of two nude men who embrace and kiss as they sit on the floor, The Kiss, 1991, B/W photo of two men kissing (pictured on next page), and Fire Island Pines, NY, Summer 1990, which includes seven men in white shorts; Ray Shultz (also Schulze or Schultz or RAS), Untitled, male nude (on his back) who fondles the genitals of the man above him with his right foot; Tom, Untitled, torso of male nude.

Murray Kaufman Estate, 15 pieces. Mr. Kaufman, collector, was a regular at Leslie-Lohman and his gift includes, R. Bulman, Untitled, mono print of a head and torso of male nude, Dudar, Untitled, 1992, standing male nude torso, Tom Foral, Untitled, conte crayon on paper, rear view of standing male nude, Gulsen, Untitled, acrylic on canvas, study of male buttocks and back in earth tones and metallic gold, 5 works by Wayne Hampton, Untitled, 1987, color photo montage of male buttocks, another Untitled, 1987, color photo montage of a male nude, an Untitled, 1987, 2-sided color photos of sitting male nudes, and an Untitled, 1987, three-fold triangle with three color photos (one per side) with three variations of close-up shot of man unbuckling thong at hip, and another Untitled, 1987, three-fold triangle with three color photos (one per side) with two side profiles of nude man bending over, third shows a nude male buttocks; Michael Palladino, Untitled, photo in encaustic of a crouching nude male with his back to viewer– background is double image of circular pattern and classic image of seated male nude, a la Flandrin and Von Gloeden; 2 pieces by Andy Shomock, Untitled, 1995, color photo featuring five nude men who sit or stand near each other next to a pool, and the other also, Untitled, color photo again featuring five nude men who pose in a tug of war next to a pool. The final three works are by Unknown artists. First, Untitled, acrylic on canvas seated male nude clutching rolled paper in left hand and cigarette in the other, second, Untitled, pencil on paper study of hands and full figure study of nude muscular man, third, Untitled, color photo of a male nude sitting in bed.

Douglas Turnbaugh, collector, 4 pieces by Patrick Angus. First, Portait of Robert Patrick, acrylic on canvas, Robert Patrick standing, wearing red shirt and blue overalls, second, Portrait of Quentin Crisp, acrylic on canvas, third, a painting entitled, The Trial of Socrates, 1988, acrylic on stretched canvas with six male figures in a temple setting at night, and Self Portrait-Patrick Angus, drawing on paper. LLGAF has had in its collection for some years now the important painting, Hanky Panky. All of the above and more of Angus’ art will be shown in the exhibition running January 6-February 14, 2004 at the foundation, Slave to the Rhythm: Patrick Angus and the Gay 80s. Mr. Turnbaugh is giving a lecture about Patrick Angus during the run of this exhibit. It is an important show–don’t miss it.

Bernard Goldray, collector, 2 photographs by Howard Zucker (AKA Sylvester Q). First, Untitled, 2001, B/W photograph of a male nude face down in bed, and second, Untitled, 2001, color photograph of a head and shoulders shot of shirtless man with elbows raised and hands on head, looking upward.

Frank Olson, collector, has donated various videos, 8mm films, 8mm film projector, magazines, books, and memorabilia.

Andrew Sie, collector, has donated two important paintings to Leslie-Lohman. First, a painting by David Ligare, Endymon and Eros, oil on canvas (reproduced in Edward-Lucie Smith’s book, American Realism) and second, a painting by Wes Hempel, American Rudder, oil on canvas. These will be exhibited in the Member’s Gallery in the coming year.

Len Paoletti, collector and artist in his own right. Mr. Paoletti has generously donated 204 items from his extensive collection. We have not had time to fully catalog the donation yet so all I can say, as of this writing, is that his donation includes work by Tom of Finland, George Stavrinos, Rex, JS Sargent, Bill Ward, David Martin, Mylo Quam, John Barrington, Robert Bliss, Richard Etts, Warwick Beecham, and George Dureau, as well as, several of his own paintings. A selection of Mr. Paoletti’s donation will be shown in the coming year. He has also agreed to present a talk about his collection at the gallery and is in the process of writing a book about the artists he has collected.

From Individual Artists:
A large number of individual artists have also donated work to the foundation.

Victor Gadino. Untitled, pencil on grey paper, male nude as angel (see reproduction at right).

Marion Pinto. Male Odalisque, 1974, oil on canvas. Ms. Pinto opened The Leslie-Lohman Gallery in 1975, with a solo show entitled, Man as Sex Object. This painting is from that series of work.

The. Titolo. Mr. Titolo deposited the major portion of his oeuvre with Leslie-Lohman several years ago and is still producing vibrant and interesting work. Recently he discovered two additional pieces with female content that he has donated to LLGAF. They are both drypoints from 1958. (See reproduction of one of them at right.)

From The Queer Men’s Erotic Art Workshop:
The following artists have graciously donated art to LLGAF for two raffles held to benefit Leslie-Lohman. They are all members of the Queer Men’s Erotic Art Workshop and several have been attending regularly since the beginning nearly three years ago. They not only helped support and promote Leslie-Lohman but their work is now out in the public domain for other people to appreciate. The two raffles were for the Artist & His Model silent auction at the Center and for the opening of the show, Fritz Lohman and Charles Leslie: Five Decades of Collecting Art at The LLGAF Gallery. Leslie-Lohman thanks you all BIG TIME.

The artists included are, Neil Aristy, Brian Bednarek, Charles Bjorklund, Robert DeMichiell, Steven Frim, John Kirslis, Bob Lukasik, Freddy Pena, Harvey Redding (founder and co-director of the workshop), Dan Romer, Rob Hugh Rosen (co-director of the workshop), Richard Rosenfeld, Ron Rubin, Eric Rawlins, Tom Saettel, Frank Sheehan, Wayne Snellen, Gary Speziale, Leonard Todd, Michi Yamaguchi and thanks to Robert Fontanelli for his poster for the exhibition, Dirty Little Drawings, and Robert W. Richards for his poster for the exhibition, Naked.

Postscript:
All of the above have made valuable contributions not only to The Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation but also to the developing dialogue of openly gay artists and their art. Important among that dialogue is the work of Jim Saslow, a member of The Leslie-Lohman Advisory Committee, who authored the hugely important book, Pictures and Passions, which is a history of art from the viewpoint of a gay art historian. We want to publicly thank him for his support and his popular lecture series at the foundation. Along with Bill DeNoyelles whose interviews for The Archive, especially the one in this issue with John Giorno, (which dovetails perfectly with the Patrick Angus exhibit in January 2004), these writers are opening doors and setting the record “straight” on what really went down. This is refreshing and iberating–and sad–but, knowledge is power.