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- **Posted:** 2022-02-16T17:08:15.000+00:00
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February is LGBT+ History Month in the UK, which this year explores the theme of Politics in Art: 'The Arc is Long'.⁠
Insisting on "No prefix, suffix, or quotes", British painter Gluck was born in 1895 and led a life as singular as their moniker.⁠
Adopting androgynous dress and behaviors against the gender prescriptions of the time, Gluck's non-conformity extended to the canvas - refusing to be identified with any one art movement and only exhibiting solo.⁠
Their 1937 work 'Medallion (YouWe)', a dual portrait of Gluck and partner Nesta Obermer, was used as the cover of Radclyffe Hall’s 'The Well of Loneliness', the 1928 novel and trailblazer of LGBT+ literature. ⁠
Another of Gluck's relationships, with Constance Spry, was explored in their work, with Gluck painting from the British florist's fantastical arrangements.⁠
Not one to accept the world as it was presented, Gluck led a long campaign to improve the quality of oil paints with the British Standards Institution eventually acting on the artist's frustrations.⁠
In regards to their last major painting, of a decomposing fish head entitled 'Credo (Rage Rage Against the Dying of the Light' and completed in 1973, Gluck wrote: "‘All order is lost; mechanics have gone overboard – A phantasmagoric irrelevance links shapes and matter. A new world evolves with increasingly energy and freedom soon to be invisibly reborn within our airy envelope". ⁠
For more LGBT+ history from gettyarchive, follow our bio link.⁠
📷: Gluck at their studio in Hampstead, London, 4th November 1932 I Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images I #GettyImages #PreservingThePast #GettyArchive⁠
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