The Call of Phosphor

Best known for his series of drawings depicting boxers, dating from the 1920s and 1930s, William Littlefield was clearly fascinated by the male figure. His mythological paintings often depicted male and female figures, and this example is one of his most evocative. Dated July, 1938 when Littlefield lived in Falmouth, Massachusetts, the artist marked the back of the canvas with this line from a poem: "At dawn I heard the call of Phosphor god of the morning star, and beheld Aurora part the curtains of the night." Littlefield exhibited widely in the 1930s and 1940s, and his works are in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Wadworth Atheneum in Hartford.

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