Showing posts with label Keith Vaughan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Keith Vaughan. Show all posts
Saturday, July 5, 2025

Keith Vaughan

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British artist Keith Vaughan took this photo in 1938 while  on an excursion to Pagham Beach with a group of young men.  
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Saturday, April 19, 2025

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This is supposed to be from Keith Vaughan's private album of photos made at the Highgate Men's Pond.  
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Friday, June 11, 2021

Keith Vaughan, Photography and Art

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Keith Vaughan (1912-1977) was a British artist who never really accepted his homosexuality,  but did leave behind quite a bit of homoerotic ...
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At the beach

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All of today's photos are said to have been made on a weekend visit Keith Vaughan made to a  seashore area with some of his models just ...
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Two views of a standing man?

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Or two men standing?  This excellent drawing gives us an outstanding view, whether there were two men or just one.  

Throwing?

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I had to post this despite the obtrusive "sold" watermark.  

Simple, but effective

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This simple drawing looks like a lesson from a class, but it manages to get the point across.  

Pebble Beach

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Sometimes it's hard to tell if Vaughan's photographic composition was artistic or haphazard. This cluttered scene has the men's ...

Two men and a spear

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This untitled drawing seems to show two men struggling over a spear.  

The Beach Chair

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Ummmmm . . . let's see.  What will I do with this beach chair? A handstand, that's what I'll do with it! And don't ask your ...
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Standing Nude

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Like many of Vaughan's drawings, this one has no real title,just a description,  "Standing Nude."  I found at least a dozen va...

Peekaboo Fog

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This Vaughan photo is partially fogged, but I like the young man's expression . . . and the peekaboo glimpse of the jewels through the t...
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Two Men with Staffs

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This drawing shows Vaughan's tendency in some of his work to make men's heads smaller than normal. In researching this series, that ...
Friday, April 12, 2019

Keith Vaughan Day, Part 2 - His Art

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Moving on to our Friday art lesson with more of the work of Keith Vaughan.   Jorge Lewinski took this photo of Vaughan in his studio ...

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This interesting Keith Vaughan piece combines photography and drawing, making a nice transition from the photography portion of today...
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This is a Keith Vaughan self study (in a mirror) from 1932.  You can see his note in the bottom left. Vaughan was almost entirely sel...
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This composite may have been an unused proof for cover art  for a posthumous book of Keith Vaughan's work.

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This 1940 Keith Vaughan work was kept in a secret album until years after his 1977 death.  Way ahead of its time thematically, the date...
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This is Vaughan's rather homoerotic take on the Temptation of Saint Anthony, a story in which the famous monk encounters a Satyr (o...

Keith Vaughan Day, Part 1 - the Pagham Beach Photos

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Keith Vaughan (1912-1977) was a British painter who was used his own photography as the basis for some of his art.  As a gay man who came...
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