Hugh Auchincloss Steers
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Hugh Auchincloss Steers (June 12, 1962 – March 1, 1995) was an American painter whose work is in the
AIDS at the age of 32.[1]
Early life
Steers was born on June 12, 1962, to
Nina Gore Auchincloss and Newton Steers. He was the second of three children born to his parents. Steers had two brothers, Ivan Steers the oldest and Burr Steers, the youngest, the filmmaker.[2] He attended the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut and graduated from Yale University in 1985. He later attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, graduating in 1991.[3]
Steers was the grandson of
Hugh D. Auchincloss, Janet Auchincloss, Jackie Kennedy, Renata Adler, Beatrice Straight, and Peter Cookson.[4]
Art
In 1989, Steers received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship[5] and had his first solo exhibition. He went on to exhibit his work in over 30 shows across the United States and Italy.[3]
Steers' work, primarily
AIDS and many of his paintings showed male figures alone nearly nude or clothed in women's attire. Steers also depicted pairs of men bathing, dressing each other, and embracing. In his final works, he painted a self-portrait of a man dressed in a white hospital gown with white high heels. The figure is shown entering the lives of other characters as both an avenging and a guardian angel.[1]
A comprehensive
monographic catalogue of Steers’ work was published by Visual AIDS in 2015.[5]
Personal life
Steers was openly gayAIDS related complications in 1995 at the age of 32.[1]
Exhibitions
- Drawing Center, New York (1987)[5]
- Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY (1988)[5]
- Denver, Colorado (1991)[5]
- Midtown Galleries, New York (1990[6])[5]
- Richard Anderson, New York (1992)[5]
- New Museum of Contemporary Art (1994)[5]
- Cadmus, Steers, Warhol (2012)[5]
- Art Basel Miami Beach (2012)[5]
- Art Kabinett Art Basel Miami Beach History, Painting (2012)[5]
- Hugh Steers, Alexander Gray Associates (2013)[7]
- Hugh Steers, Whitney Museum of American Art (2013)[5]
- Art AIDS America, Tacoma Art Museum (2015)[5]
- Hugh Steers' Day Light Alexander Gray Associates (2015)[5]
- Hugh Steers' Strange State of Being Alexander Gray Associates (2021)[5]
See also
- Newton Steers
- Burr Steers
- Hugh D. Auchincloss
- Thomas Gore
References
- ^ a b c d "Hugh Steers, 32, Figurative Painter". The New York Times. 4 March 1995. p. 25. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
- ^ Durbin, Karen (15 September 2002). "Film; A Family's Legacy: Pain and Humor (and a Movie)". The New York Times. p. 15. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
- ^ a b c "Hugh Steers". yamp.org. Yale AIDS Memorial Project. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
- ^ "Mrs. Steers Wed to Michael Straight". The New York Times. May 2, 1974. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Hugh Steers". alexandergray.com. Alexander Gray. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
- ^ Foss, Paul and Hugh Steers. HUGH STEERS: The Flaws of Hospitality. Essay by Paul Foss. May-June 1990. New York, Midtown Galleries.
- ^ Cotter, Holland (February 7, 2013). "Hugh Steers". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
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