Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Recorded June 5, 2023

Rebecca Klassen, curator of material culture join guest curator Donald Albrecht; project advisor Monica L. Miller, professor of English and Africana Studies at Barnard College; and George Chauncey, professor of American history at Columbia University to discuss the exhibition Under Cover: J.C. Leyendecker and American Masculinity.

J.C Leyendecker was a preeminent illustrator and commercial artist who helped shape American visual culture in the first three decades of the 20th century and whose illustrations often had homoerotic undertones. The exhibition showcases 19 of the artist’s original oil paintings and a wealth of related ephemera, and features both Leyendecker’s editorial work, such as magazine covers, as well as commercial illustrations that appeared in the pages of popular publications, in store windows, and on mass transit.


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