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Henry Tuke |
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| Born: 1858 - Died: 1929. |
| Henry Tuke is probably best remembered for his paintings of naked boys, and young men, which have earned him a status as a pioneer of gay male culture.
In 1874 Tuke moved with his family to London, where he enrolled in the Slade School of art. After graduating he travelled to Italy in 1880, and from 1881 to 1883 he lived in Paris, where he studied with the French history painter Paul Laurens.
,br>Tuke returned to Britain and moved to Newlyn Cornwall joining a small colony of artists: where together they formed the Newlyn School.
Most of Tukes works depict boys and young men who swim, dive and lounge, usually naked, on a boat or on the beach. Tuke also produced more saleable works; these paintings Tuke placed his male nudes in safely mythological contexts. Although Tuke's paintings of nude youths undoubtedly appealed to those gay men who found adolescents attractive, they are never explicitly sexual.
Tuke formed close friendships with many of his models, but it has never been established that he was sexually involved with any of them, on either a romantic or commercial basis.
Due to the nature of his subject matter, Tuke was unable to sell many of his works, except to a select circle of homosexual art collectors. But he was also well known as a portraitist, and maintained a London studio to work on his commissions.
Technically, Tuke favoured rough, visible brushstrokes, at a time when a smooth, polished finish was favoured by fashionable painters and critics. He had a strong sense of colour and excelled in the depiction of natural light, particularly the soft, fragile sunlight of the English summer. Tuke might have become a major name in British painting: as it was he remained a niche painter, due largely to his rather unorthodox subject matter.
In later life he was in poor health for many years, and died in Falmouth in 1929. |
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