The sailors pulled out yesterday. David LaChapelle above. Bruce Weber below.
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May 28, 2014
May 27, 2014
Fleet Week Image of the Day #8
Two favorite captains from New Bedford's Whaling Museum. Though none can touch Captain Wentworth from Persuasion.
May 26, 2014
Fleet Week Image of the Day #7
Vintage scrub day. The ad on the left promises, "our men are battle-hot and swamp-dirty."
May 25, 2014
Fleet Week Image of the Day #6
In honor of tonight's The Normal Heart, a re-purposed Leyendecker poster amid some original recruitment techniques. More shirtless thrusting after the jump.
May 24, 2014
Fleet Week Image of the Day #5
Because it's Saturday night.
Tom of Finland and Jean Cocteau. More in common than you might think. Hand placement.
Taschen's XXX The Complete Kake Comics
Fleet Week Image of the Day #4
At left, Lord Hood of Avalon by Sidney Willis Hodges, circa 1860. After the jump, Matisse and Hockney.
May 22, 2014
Fleet Week Image of the Day #3
Albert Edelfelt (1857-1905)
Fleet Week Image of the Day #2
Henry Scott Tuke's perfectly positioned 'Sleeping Sailor' shows Harry Cleave posing on the mizzen boom of a derelict French barque the Mazatlan, moored in Falmouth harbor, in the summer of 1905. The painting sold for £15.
Tuke used the old ship as a floating studio and did several paintings on board including 'The Mid-Day Rest (Sailors Yarning)' seen after the jump.
For more images get Catching the Light: The Art and Life of Henry Scott Tuke.
May 20, 2014
Fleet Week Image of the Day #1
1,500 active servicemembers of the Marines, Coast Guard, and Navy arrive in NYC tomorrow for double duty during Fleet Week 2014, straining to make up for last year's sequester tease and ultimate no-show. Beyond these official events, Thebes will honor the seamen with a salty image a day. Starting with the best, none can surpass these watercolors, Farewell Voyage and Amor y Olas, from the amazing French-Mexican California-raised artist Felix D'Eon. See his gorgeous website, which could transfix you for hours with its gay mythological, historical, sporty, outdoorsy, and erotic drawings. Please support him by ordering a print from $12.50 to $60, an original for $850, or individual or boxed greeting cards.