Robert Opel
's Fey-Way Studios
1287 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA USA
March 1978 - July 1979

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Item No. 1: 5"x7" b/w - printed on white paper

Etienne and A. Jay
 
Fey-Way joint exhibition
May 27-June 9 , 1978
 
Flyer with pen and ink drawing by Etienne, the foremost homoerotic gay illustrator along with Tom of Finland.  Dom "Etienne" Orejudos died of AIDS in Boulder, Colorado on September 24, 1991.
* IN MEMORIAM: B.A.R. obituary
 
A. Jay (Allen J. Shapiro, was a popular illustrator and cartoonist from the 1960's to the late '80s. Art editor of the original "Drummer" magazine, he created the "Harry Chess" cartoon strip. He died of AIDS on May 30, 1987.
 

Exhibition Invitation card

OLAF and The HUN 

Fey-Way joint exhibition
June 12-27, 1978

       • OLAF Odegaard (1938-1997)

www.eroticartcollection.com/Olaf/

• The HUN

Bill Schmeling, a.k.a. "The Hun", born on April 30, 1938, was a Portland, Oregon based, homoerotic, fetish artist who was inducted into the Erotic Artist Hall of Fame of the Tom of Finland Foundation in 2002 and died in Portland on September 12, 2019. 

www.leatherarchives.org/collections/art/hun/hun.html

Item No. 4: 8.5"x13" b/w - printed on colored paper. Pencil and ink drawing: 'Finger Licking' by Farmer.

Item No. 5: "x7.75" b/w drawing printed on glossy white paper by Farmer.

Bill Bowers and Douglas Farmer 
Fey-Way joint exhibition

July 8-22 , 1978 

One of Gay photographer Bill Bowers' first exhibitions. (For more of Bill's work, see his QAR gallery.) Advertisement on the folded back of INTRODUCTIONS 78 poster with ink drawing, dated 1974, by Douglas Farmer. Fey Way Studios is listed as one of the participating art galleries of INTRODUCTIONS 78, a precursor of San Francisco's annual Open Studios.
In May 2002, Wendy Mukluk, a photographer who exhibited at Harvey Milk's Castro Street camera store in August 1974, informed me that Douglas Farmer had died of unknown cause several years ago. Another Farmer drawing from the Mukluk Collection. Highly recommended: Wendy Mukluk's photos on her 'memorial to dead friends' page: www.wendymukluk.com/mukluk/mem.html 

 

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