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John Koch, American, 1909-1978. Farmers Nooning, N.D., oil on canvas, 40 1/4 by 50 1/4 in.

John Koch, American, 1909-1978. Composition, N.D., oil on canvas, 35 x 45.5”.

John Koch, American, 1909-1978. Bacchanal, 1952, oil on canvas, 69 3/4 x 82 3/4 in.

John Koch, American, 1909-1978. After the Sitting, 1968, oil on canvas, 25 x 30 in.

https://www.reddit.com/r/museum/comments/1lcqrjq/john_koch_19091978_after_the_sitting/

There are notable sexual undercurrents in Koch's paintings. TIME Magazine featured his painting Siesta on the cover of its January 24, 1964 special issue: Sex in the U.S. And there has always been speculation about Koch's sexuality. Editor and critic Leo Lerman (1914–1994), an "out" gay man, a long-time friend of the Koch’s and a subject in several of the paintings, wrote of Koch in his posthumously published journals: "I was astonished to find he was a practicing homosexual. I think Dora knew." But there is no other literature or stories from Koch's many friends and students that corroborate this, and he was happily married, for almost 50 years, to Dora Zaslavsky.

John Singer Sargent, 1856-1925, American.  Male Nudes Wrestling, 1912, charcoal, 52.4 x 44.3 cm.

John Singer Sargent, 1856-1925, American.  Self Portrait, 1866, oil on canvas, 13.5 x 11.6 in.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Self-portrait_-_1886_-_John_Singer_Sargent.jpg

John Singer Sargent, 1856-1925, American.  Chiron and Achilles, 1922-1905, oil on canvas, 10.4 x 11.4.

John Singer Sargent, American, 1856-1925.  Hercules, 1921, oil on canvas, 137 × 125 in.

John Singer Sargent, 1856-1925, American.  Standing Male Nude, 1915-1917, charcoal on paper, 62.2 cm × 47.2 cm.

John Singer Sargent, 1856-1925, American.  Portrait of Carolus-Duran, 1879, oil on canvas, 46 x 38”.

John Singer Sargent, 1856-1925, American. Portrait of Robert Brough, undated, oil on canvas.

John Singer Sargent, 1856-1925, American. Study of a Male Nude Reclining, c. 1900, watercolour and pencil, UCLA Art Museum. 

https://gallerix.org/album/John-Singer-Sargent/pic/glrx-301461791#google_vignette

John Singer Sargent, 1856-1925, American.  Study of a Sicilian Peasant, 1907,  oil on canvas, 23.6 by 18.1 inches.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Singer_Sargent_(1856-1925)_-_Study_of_a_Sicilian_Peasant_-_753_-_Fitzwilliam_Museum.jpg

John Singer Sargent, 1856-1925, American.  Study of Apollo for Apollo and the Muses, circa 1921, charcoal and graphite pencil on paper, 24 7/8 x 19 1/8 inches.

https://www.jssgallery.org/Paintings/MFA/Apollo_and_the_Muses_Studies/Apollo.html

John Singer Sargent, 1856-1925, American. Olympio Fusco, 1919, charcoal on laid paper, 24 1/2 × 18 3/4 in.

Fusco was an Italian man and local model employed by Sargent, celebrated for his raw, unidealized humanity and a lush corona of hair.

John Singer Sargent, 1856-1925, American.  Recumbent Male Nude Leaning on His Right Forearm, 1888 - 1917, oil on canvas, 62 x 48 cm.