Through the peephole

From: The Village Voice | Date: May 18, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Paul Cadmus Sings the Body Electric and Otherwise

In 1919, a 15-year-old boy from the Upper West Side trekked to the National Academy of Design. The boy's parents had studied at the academy 20 years earlier, and they were determined that their children would, too. They had moved as close to the school as they could-West 103rd Street, then a teeming Irish block-so that Paul Cadmus (and later his sister, Fidelma) could make a life for themselves in art.

Cadmus began by studying antiques, but he was drawn to the class next door where older students worked with nude models. One day, he found a ...

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