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"Max Ewing's Closet and Queer Architectural History" by Alice T. Friedman. Fascinating short two-part article on a pre-Stonewall "tumblr page" of sorts, examining the closet as architecture and metaphor, a collection of images both personal and historical, and the life of an important early 20th century gay figure in New York. Links here: https://www.platformspace.net/home?author=5d9e07b47c0a913245a9ecba

Max Ewing - Gallery of Extraordinary Portraits, 1928

via: Art Blart: Max Ewing’s Gallery of Extraordinary Portraits encapsulates the exhibition’s wider exploration of queer communities in 20th-century New York. Ewing was a novelist, composer, pianist, and sculptor who created this gallery in the walk-in closet of his Manhattan studio apartment on West 31st Street. His semi-public closet exhibition paid homage to interracial, gay, and artistic communities with images of friends and celebrities plastered floor to ceiling, corner to corner.

Max Ewing’s Gallery of Extraordinary Portraits encapsulates our upcoming exhibition Gay Gotham’s wider exploration of queer communities in 20th-century New York. Ewing was a novelist, composer, pianist, and sculptor who created this gallery in the walk-in closet of his Manhattan studio apartment on West 31st Street. Ewing’s semi-public closet exhibition paid homage to his interracial, gay, and artistic communities with images of friends and celebrities plastered floor to ceiling, corner to corner. As part of our Gay Gotham exhibition, which opens October 7th, we’re creating an updated version of Ewing’s gallery. Want to be featured? Strike a pose and tag your picture with #GayGotham on Twitter or Instagram and you can see yourself in our gallery! Max Ewing’s Gallery of Extraordinary Portraits, 1928 Courtesy Yale University, Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library

Enlarge it at the source, it's wondrous. Beefy boxers, music hall divas and drag queens galore.

Max Ewing and Emily Vanderbilt, 1928

Max Ewing at home, 1929

Max Ewing, 1932