print
- Museum number
- 2020,7044.1
- Title
- Object: YMCA Locker Room
- Description
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Group of male figures in varying states of undress, washing, dressing/undressing and interacting in a locker room. 1934
Etching on cream wove paper
- Production date
- 1934
- Dimensions
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Height: 165 millimetres (Plate)
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Height: 241 millimetres (Sheet)
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Width: 324 millimetres
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Width: 400 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Like many of Paul Cadmus's compositions, this etching pays homage to Italian Renaissance art. The interior setting, with its use of perspective, low ceiling and pillar-like row of lockers dividing the space, is reminiscent of the work of Piero della Francesca (c.1416-1492), while the twisting nude figure at the centre of the composition seems influenced by the work of Michelangelo (1475-1564). See, for example, 1887,0502.116.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2020
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2020,7044.1
