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Henry Holiday's working drawing for "The Landing" from "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll (1876) was presumably intended for his eyes only...

Henry Holiday's working drawing for the Bellman
Bellman's penis

...but the Bellman's penis is finely detailed.

''The Landing'' from ''The Hunting of the Snark''

"Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried,
   As he landed his crew with care;
Supporting each man on the top of the tide
   By a finger entwined in his hair.

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An edition edited by Martin Gardner. The working drawings are in a 1981 edition edited by James Tanis and John Dooley, published by William Kaufmann, Inc., Los Altos, California.

 

Picasso early drawing

Picasso submitted this pencil drawing of a heavy-thighed man to enter the Barcelona School of Fine Arts in 1895 when he was14.

 

Bacchanale by Picasso

A jovial minotaur and man in Picasso's 1933 "Bacchanale" share a post-coital drink.

Picasso's man's penis

The penis is drawn very simply.

Museum of Modern Art, New York

 

''Oedipus'' by Keith Vaughan

''Oedipus'''s penis by Keith Vaughan

"Oedipus" (1933)
by Keith Vaughan (1912-1977)


Keith thought that the omens at his birth were auspicious: "Apart from being a healthy baby it was observed that my penis possessed a loose and easily retractable foreskin which was not considered necessary to circumcise according to the custom of my class. For this piece of good fortune I have had many occasions to be grateful."

- "Keith Vaughan: his life and work" (1990)
by Malcolm Yorke
London: Constable, p24

 

Escher's 'Mosaic 2'

guru from Escher's ''Mosaic 2''

guru's penis

M. C. Escher's intiguing etchings routinely show any nude males as intact, such as this Buddha-like figure (in Mosaic II, 1957) ...

Optimists and pessimists

Optimist

... and not only the optimists emerging from this frieze (Encounter, 1944)

Optimist's penis

but also, as Escher's working drawings show, ...

Pessimist

... the pessimists.

Pessimist's penis
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Cadmus nude

Penis of Cadmus nude

Paul Cadmus (1904-1999) finely details his model's penis

 

Hockney's illustration to Cavafy

Hockney penis

David Hockney's 1967 illustration to C P Cavafy's poems stresses line, rather than shading, giving a flat look to the model's penis, though the sulcus and acroposthion are indicated.

 

Male nude by Francisco Lòpez

Lòpez nude's penis

Conversely Francisco Lòpez's 1973 nude torso is finely shaded, emphasising the penis' dorsal vein.

 

''Archoiochos Alone'' by Michael Ayrton

Archilochos' penis

"Archilochos Alone"
by Michael Ayrton
(1921-1975)


''Poseidon's gifts'' by Michael Ayrton


Poseidon's penis

"Poseidon's Gifts"
Poseidon's raphe and
acroposthion can be
clearly seen.

 

''Richard'' by Kitaj

Richard's penis

"Actor (Richard)", painted in 1979
by R. B. Kitaj, has a "peeper",
a shorter than average foreskin.

 

While the character of Gollum in the film of The Lord of the Rings is almost entirely computer-generated and wears a tiny loincloth that doesn't seem to hide much, oversized models were used by Weta Workshops to help make him so lifelike, and a picture of one in Cinefex magazine shows the artists conceived him as intact, as is a maquette of the Cave Troll in the Lord of the Rings exhibition - as of course they should be (but it wouldn't be so certain if they were made in the US).

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English artist John Carter
(1927-2004) takes
intactness for granted
in his Big Catch

 

'Reclining Middle-Aged 'Man'' by John Willcocks

Reclining Middle-Aged Man's penis

This "Reclining Middle-Aged Man"
by John Willcocks
has a clearly delineated peeper.

 

One of Angela's Men

Angela's Men is a gallery
of treated photographs
of intact men, many closeups.
Treatment is commonly a metallic finish,
such as copper.

 

Painting by  Paul Davis Jones

Paul Davis Jones of Phildelphia has painted a series
of extreme closeups of foreskins,
"the Intact Project", coloured to give an abstract, rose-like effect.
He writes,
"AS EACH FORM EMERGED ON THE CANVAS,
THE JOY OF CREATION BECAME ANGER
AS I ASKED MYSELF WHY ANYONE
WOULD CHOOSE TO DESTROY THIS UNIQUE
AND BEAUTIFUL PART OF A MALE'S BODY.
"

 

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Jonathan Yeo painted two portraits of entrepreneur Ivan Massow three months apart, during which Massow lost three stone (19 kg) and grew a beard.

Jonathan Yeo's first portrait of Ivan Massow

Jonathan Yeo's second portrait of Ivan Massow

Ivan Massow's penis

Ivan Massow's penis, three months later

 

In his book "Uncut: the natural history of the foreskin", Sherwin Carlquist includes a sequence of Annie Liebowitz-like portraits of intact penises in natural settings.

Foreskin and roses, by Sherwin Carlquist

Foreskin and driftwood, by Sherwin Carlquist

Foreskin and clam, by Sherwin Carlquist

 

Portrait by Dylan Ricci

Penis of Dylan Ricci model

Photographer Dylan Ricci
likes to partially
conceal his models'
faces and genitals.

 

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