"After Cadmus"

Graphite
18” x 24”
Limited First Edition (100)

Paul Cadmus, one of the 20th century’s greatest figurative painters, also produced masterful nude drawings, the model for which was often his partner of thirty years, Jon Andersson.  Cadmus died in 1999, three years after enactment of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).  

After Cadmus is the reimagining of one of his drawings.  It is drawn with the words of the Writ of Certiorari and the testimony before the United States Supreme Court in the case of United States v. Windsor (2013) which successfully sought the repeal of Section 3 of DOMA.