Male Nude with Mannequin

Alexander Cañedo, artist

1902–1978

Male Nude with Mannequin, 1950s

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: collotype; carbon transfer

Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 419 x 525 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 16 1/2 x 20 11/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 25 in

Credit line: Museum purchase

Accession number: 1974.0049

Not on display

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Born to a Mexican father who was a prominent government official and an American mother, Cañedo was a precocious artist. His parents dispatched him to Paris at age 15 to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. After further art studies in Rome, he returned to Mexico in 1927. Cañedo’s first American show was at Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.’s gallery in 1932, and its success led to his move to New York where his career as an illustrator flourished. He was prized for his draftsmanship, but by mid-century Cañedo worried that, “With so much abstract work around us, there are very few good drawings done today.” So, in 1950, he published a guide to figure drawing that quickly gained popularity. By then he had relocated to California, where he divided time between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Today Cañedo is best known for studies of nude figures, many of them male, often homoerotic, posed in unconventional settings or combinations such as this. CCE