Paul Cadmus was an American artist widely known for his egg tempera paintings of gritty social interactions in urban settings. He also produced many highly finished drawings of single nude male figure
Paul Cadmus 1937, by Carl Van Vechten
The Fleet's In! (1934), cropped view
Christian William Miller was an American artist and model who contemporaries qualified as "one of the most beautiful men" in the gay social scene of New York City in the 1940s.
Bill Miller, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, 1946
Bill Miller and George Gallowhur with Sunstill
Portrait of Bill Miller by Paul Cadmus