Battle Stories (1931) by F.X. Leyendecker Frame:Unframed Held by the Lady Lever

Held by the Lady Lever Art Gallery

Lavine tilts the frame - literally and figuratively - placing actor and heartthrob Eriq La Salle

swagger and a deliciously camp sense of occasion

Have we been caught in a moment of gazing too long at this hunk or is this about to become something more

Battle Stories (1931) by F.X. Leyendecker Frame:Unframed Held by the Lady LeverFrank Xavier Leyendeckers Battle Stories image turns war propaganda into pure pulp spectacle. Originally created as a WWI recruitment poster and later reused by Fawcett for the October 1931 issue of Battle Stories, it shows bare armed soldiers locked around artillery for Zero Hours with the Devil Dogs. This language of heroic masculinity now reads with a queer charge. Muscle, danger, service and a very public excuse to look.