"Tuke was consistently devoted to painting the bodies of boys and young men. As Andrew Stephenson explores in Chapter 4, the resulting pictures enjoyed a very broad currency, becoming a staple of London exhibitions over many years and selling both to private collectors and museums in substantial numbers. They were widely discussed among Uranians- contemporary bookish slang for sophisticated homosexual men such as Tuke's friends the journalist Charles Kains-Jackson and the historian Horatio Brown. The artist's own public verbal comments never go near any potential erotic content, and yet such content seems evident to us today. It seems somehow Tuke was confidently 'speaking' a visual language that had not yet been codified, or not yet acknowledged to exist (see Michael hatt's chapter in this volume)."
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Nicholas Tromans (contributing author), Henry Scott Tuke (New Haven: Yale University Press) by Cicely Robinson (editor), p. 104
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Henry Scott Tuke
Henry Scott Tuke (12 June 1858 – 13 March 1929), was an English visual artist; primarily a painter, but also a photographer. His most notable work was in the Impressionist style, and he is best known for his paintings of nude boys and young men.
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