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Quaintance model Zaro Rossi was an Italian Stallion long before Sylvester Stallone made the cheesy 1970 erotic film of that name. Zaro was born in Los Angeles, on Sept. 29, 1934 and became interested in bodybuilding while in his teens. A military veteran, he served in the Air Force, in Korea. Photographer Dave Martin, a master of light and shadow, recorded Zaro's development as a bodybuilder in hundreds of full-frontal nude photos, many of which can be found in a quick Internet search.
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Fifty-eight years after his death, George Quaintance is finally getting his first one-man show. Approximately two dozen of his iconic male physique canvases, plus a large pencil sketch, a formal portrait of handsome young Peter Barclay, and two sculptures, will be on display at the Taschen Gallery, located at 8070 Beverly Blvd. (at Fairfax) in Los Angeles. Many of the pieces are for sale.
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Today, June 3, 2015, is the 113th anniversary of the birth of George Quaintance, and I'm happy to have exciting news to mark the date. I have written before about the painting, Kanaka Fisherman, which is the only canvas Quaintance is known to have painted more than once. You can click here to read about the three fishermen.
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After ten years and dozens of publishers' rejections, the George Quaintance biography that John and I coauthored is available as an ebook. John passed away in 2013, and in 2014, I made a New Year's resolution to create an ebook version by year's end. I completely re-wrote every chapter, adding about 12,000 words to the original
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These two items are from George Quaintance's scrapbooks. The image on the left appears to be a page from Coronet magazine, which began publishing in 1936. The image on the right appears to be a newspaper clipping. There is no explanatory information for either image, although Robert of Fifth Avenue was a department store that employed Quaintance in the 1930s.