The picture of Querelle and the bartender in sexual union hung on the wall of Steward's apartment for many years.
In the picture itself Steward etched his signature and date in the design on the Armenian's shirtcuff: "Sparrow Phil 1951". The strangulation picture has, in Steward's hand, on the verso: "From Genet's Querelle de Brest. The illustration of the sailor having his cigarette lit subsequently appeared in Der Kreis under the caption "Lucky Strike." Indeed, Steward etched "LUCKY STRIKE" in the cigarette in the picture on the verso, it is signed "Sam Steward 1951 1952". In the first a man lights a cigarette for a sailor in the second Querelle strangles the Armenian pederast in the third Querelle is penetrated by the bartender husband of Madame Lysiane. Working form Polaroid photographs taken of himself in various poses, Steward fashioned three scratchboard illustrations for the story. Spring writes: "Noteworthy among Steward's many illustrations for Der Kries is one that was originally created for Steward's 1951- 1952 English language translation of Querelle de Brest. Kinsey and also in the rare anthology of homoerotic art published by Der Kries in 1960 Der Mann in der Zeichnung (under one of Steward's pseudonyms, Philip von Chicago). During Steward's lifetime the "Lucky Strike" image was published in the Zurich-based Der Kries, an early homophile publication introduced to Steward by Dr. And, his sexual activities increasingly involved sadomasochism, in which he had always been interested All three of these drawings were reproduced in "An Obscene Diary: The Visual World of Sam Steward" (Antonius Press/ Elysium Press 2010). He turned his artistic energies to tattooing, operating parlors catering to naval and military servicemen, in Chicago, Milwaukee and finally Oakland.
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Steward's pursuit of "serious" literary expression ebbed, and later in the 1960s, under the pseudonym Phil Andros, he authored a series of gay paperback novels (STUD, The Greek Way, etc.), regarded as the most literate of homoerotic fiction, featuring his alter-ego hustler. When it became clear to Steward that Genet was disinterested, he dropped the project: these three scratchboards the art he he created for it. Starting out as an English professor at DePaul University with literary aspirations and after writing several commercially unsuccessful books, Steward attempted mid-life, in the early 1950s, to seek approval from Jean Genet to publish his own English translation-with his own original illustrations - of Querelle de Brest. Steward's life may well be most provocatively known for his explicit diaries, journals, photography and art that both recorded his sexual life in detail (and which he shared with Kinsey). Toklas, associations with George Platt Lynes, Glenway Wescott and other literati, and a close relationship with sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. The life of Sam Steward (1909 - 1983), the subject of Justin Spring's biography "Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professsor Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade "(Farrar Strauss Giroux, 2010), took Steward from a small town Ohio upbringing to personal friendships with Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Two are uniform in size and are matted and framed in the style of the oblong one, which wads originally matted and framed by the artist. Three scratchboards, two 12'x 15", the other 16" x 12", depicting critical scenes from Jean Genet's classic Querelle. Else fine, in a near fine unclipped ("$4.95") jacket, moderately rubbed along hinges and to front and rear panels. Black textured-paper boards, gold spine lettering in dust jacket. Wraparound jacket illustration by Etienne (a pseudonym of ballet dancer, choreographer, and erotica artists Dom Orejudos). A meticulous compiler of his own sexual adventures, Steward ultimately took down details from thousands of liaisons in a card catalog he proudly referred to as his "Stud File." Like the protagonist of the present work, Steward did not cow to the repressive atmosphere of the American mid-century, but rather embraced his gay identity with an open, renegade verve, and took pride in the lengths to which his particularly severe brand of masochism often led him. He was also associated closely (if unofficially) with sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. Attractive copy of the second work written by Steward under his Phil Andros pseudonym: an episodic novel about the sexual exploits of a gay male hustler, Phil Andros, who as described on the flap blurb, "lives by renting his body to all male comers." Steward (1909-1993) was an academic turned tattoo artist (a second career that culminated in his tenure as the official tattooist of the Hells Angels) who throughout his life befriended an array of artists and writers, including Gertrude Stein and Glenway Wescott.
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