One of my favorite paintings! My late husband had a reproduction hanging on his living room wall in Manhattan when I first met him.

He was a true Cadmus afficianado, and something of an appreciator of the Navy. ;-)

Fleet Week in Chelsea and the Village was always interesting back then — when homosexuality was still severely criminalized in the US military.

Yet somehow sailors would still make their way into gay neighborhoods, restaurants, and bars "by mistake." Chuckle.