Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/LGBT films from SIFF 2023 edit-a-thon/Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes

Synopsis

A documentary about George Platt Lynes, a gay man at the nexus of the 1930s and 1940s gay scene in NYC and a photographer who created a significant body of work concentrating on male nudes.

Links

• Article: Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes 
• On the SIFF website: "Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes". SIFF. 2023-04-26. Archived from the original on 2023-05-12. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
• Official website

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Chronololgy / comments based on the film

• 1925 Lynes goes to Paris aspiring to be a writer
• expatriate scene in paris / gay scene
• Became part of Gertrude Stein's circle
• mentioned in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas as "Baby"
• Back in US, started & dropped out of Yale in 1926
• Met Monroe Wheeler & Glenway Wescott, ex-patriates. Meets Wescott in NY
• Wheeler was one of the founders of of the Museum of Modern Art
• John Stevenson (He was in the last ménage à trois with Wheeler / Wescott, Lynes was the first. This wikilink is to a disambiguation page, & this particular person does not appear to be listed there.)
• Lynes, started bookstore in NJ then sold it six months later & went back to Paris on sale money;
• Went to Wheeler & Wescott, then living in Gil France / French Rivera?
• Jean Cocteau lived upstairs
• Travel albums photography by / of the three
• Lynes returns to NYC in 1928
• Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University has Lynnes's correspondence with Wheeler & Wescott
• Encouraged to turn from writing to photography by Wheeler & Wescott
• Untrained as a photographer
• Lynes sailed to Paris again in 1931, meets Julien Levy, who displayss Lynes's photos, also a display at MOMA in 1932
• Lecy holds a showing of 50 Lynes photographs in 1934
• Lynes used large format photography
• Themes/subjects were surrealism, mythology, theatre subjects, also fashion photography
• In 1934, Wheeler & Wescott move to NYC & Lynes moves in with them, sharing a bedroom with Wheeler
• image (not usable in WP) https://mfa.org/article/2020/stone-blossom-a-conversation-piece by Paul Cadmus
• Lynes becomes principal photographer for the American Ballet / New York City Ballet
• 1940s relationships with George Tichenor (killed in WW II) & his younger brother Jonathon Tichenor
• 1946 accepts position with Vogue Studio
• Lives beyond his means; suffers from depression because he is in a deeply homosexual town where homophobia is also rampant; misses friends in New York.
• 1948 returns to NYC; out-of-style by then
• Relationship with Laurie Douglas
• After 1948, meets & befriends Alfred Kinsey
• 1954 arranges to give his negatives to the Kinsey institute
• 1955 went to Paris for final time, returns & is hospitalized, & discovers he had lung cancer & had metastasized to his brain.
• In his later years, Lynes destroyed a lot of his early work, particularly his fashion work for which he did not want to be remembered.

In Lynes's circle:

• Alfred Kinsey
• Bernard Perlin
• Cecil Beaton
• Christopher Isherwood
• Don Bachardy

Fidelma Cadmus Kirstein in 1941

• Fidelma Cadmus Kirstein

•  Partly done Article not created but uploaded image & created Wikidata item: Fidelma Cadmus Kirstein

• George Balanchine
• George Tooker
• Jared French
• Jensen Yow
• John Connolly (This wikilink is to a disambiguation page, & this particular person does not appear to be listed there.)
• Kinsey Institute
• Lincoln Kirstein
• Man Ray
• Margaret French
• Marsden Hartley
• PaJaMa
• Paul Cadmus
• Pavel Tchelitchew

Exhibition / Archives

• Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

• "Sensual/Sexual/Social: The Photography of George Platt Lynes". Newfields. 2019-02-24. Retrieved 2023-05-29.

• Frederick R. Koch

Additional Biliography / Links

Moved to Wikipedia talk:Meetup/Seattle/LGBT films from SIFF 2023 edit-a-thon/Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes

Articles that need updating

• Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
• Matthew Leifheit

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Vincent Cianni (Q42315096)

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• Jensen Yow / Alexander Jensen Yow

• "Jensen Yow - Biography". MutualArt. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
• "Jensen Yow Artist Biography" (PDF). David Zwirner Gallery. 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
• "Yow, Alexander Jensen". Social Networks and Archival Context. Retrieved 2023-05-29.

• Chuck Howard

• Rolle, Elisa (March 9, 2023). "queerplaces - Chuck Howard". elisarolle.com. Retrieved 2023-05-29. blog
• "Chuck Howard, José "Pete" Martinez and the others". LiveJournal. 2008-04-03. Retrieved 2023-05-29. blog
• "Artist's Muse: Chuck Howard". Brian Ferrari's Blog. 2022-09-10. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
• "Chuck Howard, 75, Sportswear Pioneer". Women's Wear Daily. 2002-10-03. Retrieved 2023-05-29.

• Laurie Douglas Horbach / Laurie Douglas / "Dougie"

• Ellenzweig, Allen (2022-01-18). "Breaking Away". George Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye. New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780190219666.003.0023. ISBN 0-19-021966-1. see page 343
• Brown, Elspeth H. (2019-07-04). ""A Not-So-Simple Love Story" - LRC". Literary Review of Canada. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
• Brown, Elspeth H. (2017-06-01). "Queering Glamour in Interwar Fashion Photography". GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 23 (3). Duke University Press: 289–326. doi:10.1215/10642684-3818429. ISSN 1064-2684.
• Brown, Elspeth H. (2019-05-28). Work!. Duke University Press Books. ISBN 978-1-4780-0214-7. OCLC 1079410751. PDF available here
• Baynes, Thomas D (2019-07-05). More than a Spasm, Less than a Sign: Queer Masculinity in American Visual Culture, 1915-1955. Scholarship@Western (PhD). The University of Western Ontario. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
• "Model Honor for City Girl". Theta Alpha Kappa Journal. 54 (1). Theta Alpha Kappa, University of Missouri: 14–15. November 1939.

• Frederick R. Koch Foundation

Credits

Crew

• film company A Precious Few, LLC.
• director Sam Shahid
• producer Sam Shahid
• producer Matthew Kraus
• producer John MacConnell
• producer Nando DeCarvalho
• executive producer O'Brien Kelley
• executive producer Raja Sethuraman
• cinematography Matthew Kraus
• sound John MacConnell
• lighting John MacConnell
• editor Conor McBride (film editor)
• composer Sarah Lynch

Cast

• Allen Ellensweig
• Anne M. Young
• Bernard Perlin
• Bill O'Connor (This wikilink is to a disambiguation page, & this particular person does not appear to be listed there.)
• Bruce Weber (photographer)
• Charles Leslie (This wikilink is to a disambiguation page, & this particular person does not appear to be listed there.)
• Charles L. Venable, Ph.D.
• Demitri Levas
• Don Bachardy
• Duane Michals
• George Platt Lynes II
• James Crump
• James Smalls, Ph.D.
• Jansen Yow
• Jarrett Earnest
• Jerry Rosco
• John Connolly (This wikilink is to a disambiguation page, & this particular person does not appear to be listed there.)
• John Olsen (disambiguation) (This wikilink is to a disambiguation page, & this particular person does not appear to be listed there.)
• John Stevenson (This wikilink is to a disambiguation page, & this particular person does not appear to be listed there.)
• Mary Panzer (art historian)
• Matthew Leifheit
• Michael Scheiber
• Nick Mauss
• Peter Hay Halpert
• Philip Gefter
• Rebecca Fasman
• Robin Cooper (This wikilink is to a disambiguation page, & this particular person does not appear to be listed there.)
• Sarah Morthland
• Steven Haas (art historian), director of the George Platt Lynes Foundation, photographer, & editor of George Platt Lynes: The Male Nudes
• Stewart Shinning
• Vince Aletti
• Vincent Cianni

Contributing institutions

• The George Platt Lynes Foundation
• Whitney Museum of American Art
• David Zwirner Gallery
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
• Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York), credited as The Woodlawn Cemetery & Conservancy
• Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin

Contributing family member

• Jane Lynes, widow of George Platt Lynes II