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Jean Paul Gaultier Vintage Wide Black Belt Punk Gay Print Buckle
By Jean Paul Gaultier
Located in Nice, FR
punk and gay scene. Embossed JEAN PAUL GAULTIER Made in Italy. Indicated size : 80. Indicative
Category

21st Century and Contemporary French Belts

Gay Summer Rick, Stand By, Oil on Canvas, 2018
By Gay Summer Rick
Located in Santa Monica, CA
of the built environment, Gay Summer Rick creates iconic urban and coastal land and cityscape
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Gay Summer Rick, To the One, Oil on Canvas, 2018
By Gay Summer Rick
Located in Santa Monica, CA
populated though replete with objects and evidence of the built environment, Gay Summer Rick creates iconic
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Gay Summer Rick, Pink Moon Interlude, Oil on Canvas, 2018
By Gay Summer Rick
Located in Santa Monica, CA
with objects and evidence of the built environment, Gay Summer Rick creates iconic urban and coastal
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Gay Summer Rick, Window Seat to JFK, Oil on Canvas, 2018
By Gay Summer Rick
Located in Santa Monica, CA
environment, Gay Summer Rick creates iconic urban and coastal land and cityscape paintings that evoke emotion
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Three Young Men California WPA Figurative Modern Art Gay American Scene 1930s
By Boris Deutsch
Located in New York, NY
Three Young Men California WPA Figurative Modern Art Gay American Scene 1930s An artist on the
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Men in Barracks" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Realism Gay Modernism WWII
By David Fredenthal
Located in New York, NY
"Men in Barracks" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Realism Gay Modernism WWII. 18 x 24 inches
Category

1940s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

Gay Beach, A Heavenly Place on Miami Beach Men in Bathing Suits. Gay Interest
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Follow the rainbow flags, and it will lead you to the famous Gay Beach on Miami Beach. Beyond the
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Sandbar Trilogy - gay beach, figurative acrylic on canvas
By Charles Pachter
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Sandbar Trilogy is a brilliantly colorful pop art painting, an ode to the popular gay beach scene
Category

1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Pastel, Acrylic

Pecos Vista
By Gay Faulkenberry
Located in New York, NY
Gay Faulkenberry, Pecos Vista, Landscape Impressionist Oil Painting, Unframed: 13.25 x 10.25
Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

David Modelling
By Nan Goldin
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Boston. Armstrong also helped further introduce Goldin to the city's gay scene. In almost every decade
Category

1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Polaroid

Winter Scene
By Walter Launt Palmer
Located in New York, NY
natural serenity, and in this oil painting "The Winter Scene," Palmer invites us into a world of stillness
Category

Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Set of 6 Vintage Gay Fad "Tribute to Firefighters" Highball Glasses
Located in Nantucket, MA
Set of 6 (two sets available) Mid-Century Modern highball glasses by Fran Taylor's Gay Fad Studio
Category

Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Barware

Materials

Glass

Sandy Beach, Cohasset, 1860
By Winckworth Allan Gay
Located in New York, NY
Winckworth Allan Gay paints a scenic coastal scene from an elevated perspective overlooking a wave
Category

Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Antique Chinoiserie Jacobean Hand Painted Bookcase or Bar Cabinet, Circa 1900
By Berkey & Gay Furniture
Located in South Bend, IN
manner of Berkey & Gay USA, Circa 1900 Carved ebonized walnut, with orange lacquered case featuring
Category

Early 20th Century American Chinoiserie Cabinets

Materials

Brass

Chinoiserie Jacobean Hand Painted Bookcase or Bar Cabinet, Circa 1920s
By Berkey & Gay Furniture
Located in South Bend, IN
Berkey & Gay USA, Circa 1920s Carved walnut, green lacquered case with hand painted Chinoiserie scenes
Category

Vintage 1920s American Chinoiserie Cabinets

Materials

Brass

Squid Boats After Sunset
By Gay Summer Rick
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Gay Summer Rick paints iconic urban coastal landscapes, from Los Angeles to New York City, rendered
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Stand By
By Gay Summer Rick
Located in Santa Monica, CA
of the built environment, Gay Summer Rick creates iconic urban and coastal land and cityscape
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Stand By
Stand By
H 30 in W 48 in D 1.5 in
"Gay Head Light" Photorealist oil painting of a brick lighthouse in Aquinnah
By Rob Brooks
Located in Edgartown, MA
poet of both rural and urban scenes -- all painted with a richly charged palette. His magical eye for
Category

2010s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Love in the Woods, " Rare View of Bucolic, Gay Outing with Male Nudes
Located in Philadelphia, PA
influenced by Cubism, and was comfortable with gay and lesbian artists in Paris, which would explain this
Category

Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Paintings

Materials

Paper

1980s Erotic nude male portrait of artist's lover, Iconic piece from gay history
Located in Harkstead, GB
his horsemanship, to be a stunt double for the equestrian scenes in this iconic film. Philp Core
Category

1980s Modern Nude Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Portrait of a Welsh Miner from 1930s, Welsh Art
Located in Harkstead, GB
Roberts but with a more linear and sculptural style. John Bromfield Gay Rees (1912-1965) Welsh miner
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Portrait of Man San Francisco Bay Area Figurative Movement Peter Witwer
By Peter Witwer
Located in Soquel, CA
York City in the late 1940s and moved West in 1958 a part of San Francisco’s emerging gay scene. While
Category

1950s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Abstract Expressionist Composition on an Orange Field - Oil on Canvas
By Peter Witwer
Located in Soquel, CA
of San Francisco’s emerging gay scene, Witwer was walking home from the original Stud Bar on Folsom
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Linen, Plaster, Oil

Mid Century Textural Color-Field Abstract in Royal Blue-Purple by Peter Witwer
By Peter Witwer
Located in Soquel, CA
. Part of San Francisco’s emerging gay scene, Witwer was walking home from the original Stud Bar on
Category

1960s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil, Mixed Media

Grey & Tan Abstract Expressionist Textural Mid-Century Abstract by Peter Witwer
By Peter Witwer
Located in Soquel, CA
West in 1958. Part of San Francisco’s emerging gay scene, Witwer was walking home from the original
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Linen, Plaster, Oil

19th Century coaching scene oil painting outside a Bath inn
By John Charles Maggs
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
scene set outside the Saracen’s Head in Broad Street, Bath by John Charles Maggs. An innkeeper can be
Category

19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Place Jean-Baptiste-Clément by Maurice Utrillo - Street scene in Paris
By Maurice Utrillo
Located in London, GB
painter of modernist ‘genre’ scenes. Attracted to the shabby and often ignored back-streets of Montmartre
Category

1910s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

"Concert" Early 20th Century WPA Modernism American City Landscape Scene Ashcan
By Michael Loew
Located in New York, NY
"Concert" Early 20th Century WPA Modernism American City Landscape Scene Ashcan The size of the
Category

1920s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Greenwich Village NYC WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Ashcan Modern Realism
Located in New York, NY
Greenwich Village NYC WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Ashcan Modern Realism Alfred Mira (1900
Category

1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil, Board

Pair of 19th Century coaching scene oil paintings of a highway robbery
By John Charles Maggs
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
by John Charles Maggs. The first scene shows the Bath coach being pursued at speed by highwaymen who
Category

19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Mural Study 1933 Depression Era Mid-Century WPA Modern American Scene Drawing
By Michael Loew
Located in New York, NY
Mural Study 1933 Depression Era Mid-Century WPA Modern American Scene Drawing. Study to Scale
Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board, Egg Tempera

Rockport, Massachusetts
By Gifford Beal
Located in Los Angeles, CA
color that is rich and strong. The garden scenes have masses of deep and gleaming foliage over the gay
Category

1940s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite

Bareback Act, Old Hippodrome
By Gifford Beal
Located in Missouri, MO
over the gay scenes below. The circus pictures are resplendent in hue. He takes the rich green that
Category

20th Century American Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Bareback Act, Old Hippodrome
By Gifford Beal
Located in Missouri, MO
deep and gleaming foliage over the gay scenes below. The circus pictures are resplendent in hue. He
Category

1950s American Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Beach, Haiti, " Gifford Beal, Sunny Seascape Resort, American Impressionist
By Gifford Beal
Located in New York, NY
deep and gleaming foliage over the gay scenes below. The circus pictures are resplendent in hue. He
Category

1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Club II
Located in Hamilton, ON
domestic or outdoor settings. This particular image depicts an abstracted dance scene from a gay nightclub
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Club II
H 12 in W 12 in D 1.5 in
"Espinas y tallos I" thorns, sexuality, male nude, pastel colors, contemporary
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Artist statement: My work as a figurative painter examines my experience as a gay male living in
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil, Fabric, Canvas, Paint

"La muerte del cisne siamés" - figurative, animals, swan, hunting, pastels
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Artist statement: My work as a figurative painter examines my experience as a gay male living in
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

"Bouquet de flores y órganos III" flowers, organs, pastel colors, surreal
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Artist statement: My work as a figurative painter examines my experience as a gay male living in
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

The Vase of Flowers, French Impressionist View of an Interior.
Located in Cotignac, FR
to an end, light at the end of a tunnel, peace and beauty in the future. A beautiful interior scene
Category

Early 20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Keith Haring Safe Sex! (Vintage Keith Haring 1987)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
New York within the East Village art scene alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf, and Jenny
Category

1980s Pop Art Nude Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

'National Coming Out Day', Hand Signed by the Artist, October 11, Pop Art, NCOD
By Keith Haring
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
first National Coming Out Day on October 11, 1988 on behalf of the National Gay Rights Advocates, West
Category

1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Offset

19th Century winter coaching oil painting of a stagecoach in a snowdrift
By John Charles Maggs
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
coaching scenes. He ran a school of painting at his studio located at 34 Gay Street, known as the Bath
Category

19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Putti Duo
By Andy Warhol
Located in Toronto, Ontario
clients or important players in the New York cultural scene. "In the Bottom of My Garden" is one of
Category

1950s American Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph, Offset

Keith Haring Safe Sex! (Vintage Keith Haring 1987)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
the East Village art scene alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf, and Jenny Holzer. He bridged
Category

1980s Pop Art Nude Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

The Body is a History - Muscular Male Nude, Graphite Drawing on Paper
By Rick Sindt
Located in Chicago, IL
images depicted common, tender scenes. Working my way through these images, I reflected on D. A
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Graphite, Archival Paper

Keith Haring Club DV8 poster 1991 (Keith Haring balloon dog)
By (after) Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Francisco gay club - often credited for establishing house music in San Francisco. Haring frequented the
Category

1990s Pop Art Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Portrait of Nude Man
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
scene of the 1970s to the liberated gay culture of San Francisco during that decade to the growing toll
Category

1970s Realist Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Portrait of Nude Man
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
scene of the 1970s to the liberated gay culture of San Francisco during that decade to the growing toll
Category

1970s Realist Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

"The Old Elm, " 1934 Etching by Luigi Lucioni
By Luigi Lucioni
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautifully capturing a lovely scene of rollings hills, planted fields, rail fences and an old elm
Category

Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Prints

"The Old Elm, " 1934 Etching by Luigi Lucioni
"The Old Elm, " 1934 Etching by Luigi Lucioni
H 15.25 in W 12.25 in D 0.5 in
Double Portrait of Sir John Rivers 3rd Baronet of Chafford, and Lady Anne Rivers
Located in London, GB
, Sir Peter Rivers-Gay, 6th Baronet (c. 1721–1790). Upon Sir Peter Rivers Gay's death the estate passed
Category

17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

National Coming Out Day Poster /// Keith Haring Street Pop Art LGBTQ Political
By Keith Haring
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
for the very first National Coming Out Day on October 11, 1988 on behalf of the National Gay Rights
Category

1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Offset, Lithograph

Heron and Hawk
Located in Toronto, Ontario
audacious, capturing the details of clandestine meeting spots for gay cruising across the world. The
Category

1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Giclée

Here Anytime
Located in Toronto, Ontario
bold and audacious, capturing the details of clandestine meeting spots for gay cruising across the
Category

1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Giclée

Bobo and Evergon
Located in Toronto, Ontario
bold and audacious, capturing the details of clandestine meeting spots for gay cruising across the
Category

1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Giclée

Arrows on the Ground
Located in Toronto, Ontario
bold and audacious, capturing the details of clandestine meeting spots for gay cruising across the
Category

1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Giclée

Man with Trousers
By Arthur Tress
Located in London, GB
Eugene Smith, his work is often staged, directing work and repurposing found materials or scenes in an
Category

1980s Surrealist Nude Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled #6 - Original Graphite Drawing on Panel, Two Figures in Intimate Moment
By Rick Sindt
Located in Chicago, IL
loved ones or donated to foundations after someone’s death. These images depicted common, tender scenes
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Graphite, Panel

Ladies and Gentlemen
By Andy Warhol
Located in London, GB
were identified as well-known figures from New York’s gay and Trans scene, including AIDS activist
Category

1970s Pop Art Portrait Prints

Materials

Screen

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