What Maketh a ManHow queer artist J.C. Leyendecker invented an iconography of twentieth-century Amer
What Maketh a ManHow queer artist J.C. Leyendecker invented an iconography of twentieth-century American masculinity. By Tyler MaloneAs Time Magazine once said of the Arrow Collar Man, “All the men wanted to look like him. All the young ladies just plain wanted him.” Yet though all the ladies wanted him, it was Leyendecker himself who had him. The inspiration for the Arrow Collar Man was Charles Beach, Leyendecker’s main model, muse, and live-in lover.J.C. Leyendecker in his studio, from Appleton’s Magazine, 1905. Internet Archive.Couple Descending a Staircase, from an Arrow Collar advertisement, by J.C. Leyendecker, c. 1925. Cluett, Peabody & Co.via: Laphams Quarterly -- source link
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