"Tuke's evocative compositions use naked or semi-dressed adolescent youths in Cornish coastal settings in order to update earlier naturalistic conventions, through their adoption of a progressive plein air Impressionist colouring and radical painterly handling. Tuke's paintings also modernise the conventions of the English male nude through their updated pictorial classicism and their use of Hellenistic sources that were currency in contemporary literature, art and photography. As Michael Matt examines in Chapter 6, these all-male subjects and their intimate approach to the masculine body encouraged some of Tuke's Uranian friends and admirers to make informed assumptions about his sexual proclivities and to see the works featuring nude male adolescents as signalling homoerotic intentions in his art."
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Andrew Stephenson (contributing author), Henry Scott Tuke (New Haven: Yale University Press) by Cicely Robinson (editor), p. 76
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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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