Stroke: From Under the Mattress to the Museum Walls

Hunter O'Hanian, Museum Director, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in NYC and Robert W Richards, curator of the Stroke exhibition present a talk about the exhibit 

Stroke and the history and collections of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York City, the only accredited gay artmuseum in the world.

Exploring magazine titles such as

Physique Pictorial, Honcho, Mandate and

Drummer the presentation examines the specific lives of many of the artists and the work they created, including accomplished artists like Tom of Finland, Antonio Lopez, George Stavrinos, and less well known, but closely followed artists such as Colt, the Hun, Harry Bush, Rex, and Michael Kirwan.