PAUL SWAN 1883-1972
Untitled Portrait
Oil on 20 x 16 inch canvas panel
Signed: Paul Swan and dated (lower left) 1965?
Unframed
Could use a cleaning and minor restoration
Paul Swan had many visitors to his studios in New York City, Stony Creek and Paris. They came for dance recitals and sittings for portraits.
Paul Swan is the subject of a biography nominated for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for biography, titled The Most Beautiful Man in the World: Paul Swan, from Wilde to Warhol by Janis and Richard Londraville, University of Nebraska Press 2006.
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PAUL SWAN
1883-1972
Once hailed as "America's Leonardo" and "the most beautiful man in the world," Paul Swan began his multi-faceted career by modeling for art classes at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1900. Instructors quickly discovered his talent for drawing and arranged a scholarship. While in Chicago, he studied painting under John H. Vanderpoel (1857-1911) and sculpture under Lorado Taft (1857-1953).
His aesthetic dance performances were noticed by Diaghilev Ballet Russes star Mikhail Mordkin's (1857-1944) and became first private pupil and in London (1912). An associate of Mordkin, Andreas Pavley (1892-1931) of the Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet, and one time Anna Palova partner also became one of Swan's most trusted mentors. Swan and Pavley held dance recitals at Swan's studio in Roland Gardens in London. On a tour that traveled three continents Swan performed with Ted Shawn, Ruth St. Denis, and Isadora Duncan. Critics called him "America's most eminent exponent of classic dancing."
The song and dance team of Adele and Fred Astair had a line in one of Adele's songs, as she taunted her brother, "Don't ever think you're a Paul Swan!" Swan was spoofed by George and Ira Gershwin in their 1927 musical Funny Face: "As a Paul Swan, you are not so hot."
Swan painted and sculpted some of the twentieth century's most important figures in his studios in Stony Creek, Paris and New York City at Carnegie Hall including President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President Woodrow Wilson, Nelson Rockefellers children, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, Pope Paul VI, composers Maurice Ravel, Percy Grainger, Claude DeBussy, singer Raquel Meller, aviator Charles Lindbergh, actor John Barrymore, actress Nance O’Neil (Lizzie Borden’s reputed lover) writer Clare Booth Luce, British socialite Lady Ian Hamilton, (who was also painted by John Singer Sargent, one of Swan's favorite artists), the Duchess of Windsor, suffragette Muriel Lester, Prince Bira of Siam, Adirondack poet and Gibson Girl Jeanne Robert Foster, Willa Cather, Woodrow Wilson and Benito Mussolini.
In his old age he became an eccentric character in New York City, visited by Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder, and Roberto Matta, who admired Swan's unwavering dedication to his philosophy of art and performing aesthetic dances.
Pop artist Andy Warhol took an interest in Swan in 1965 and cast him in "Camp, Paul Swan", and "Paul Swan I-IV". Callie Angell of the Whitney Museum's Warhol Film Project calls Swan "strangely impressive" in "Paul Swan", referring to Swan's determination to continue to perform at eighty-three.
Copyright by Janis Londraville courtesy of Askart.com
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