U.S. Marines (1917) by J.C. Leyendecker Queer_Humour soft shoulders

soft shoulders

Celebrate love in its truest form

and Wegener’s lines do that perfect Art Deco thing where everything looks effortless… and secretly very deliberate

Crystal Bridges records the work as oil on canvas

” making progress look muscular

U.S. Marines (1917) by J.C. Leyendecker Queer_Humour soft shouldersJ. C. Leyendeckers U. S. Marines (1917) turns wartime recruitment into a polished seaside drama. Created as a First World War poster, it shows two Marines on shore: one signalling with a flag, the other watching distant ships through binoculars. No known lover or sitter is attached; the charge is in Leyendeckers language of masculine display. Made to urge enlistment, it sells duty through elegance, posture and spectacle patriotism with a beautifully