American artist and photographer George Quaintance was BOTD in 1902. Born in Page County, Virginia, he grew up on a farm, and was rampantly homosexual by his teens. At 18, he moved to New York where he studied art and dance. He worked in advertising, while producing homoerotic illustrations for underground gay publications, typically featured muscle-bound and extremely well-endowed cowboys, modelled on his partner Victor Garcia. He and Garcia returned to Virginia in the late 1930s where he continued to produce racy illustrations, photographs and paintings. In the 1950s, they moved to Arizona and set up a studio to sell Quintance’s artwork, becoming highly profitable. His work featured extensively in physique magazines, notably including Frank Mizer’s Physique Pictorial. He also produced a sequence of paintings of matadors, modelled on his lover Angel Avila. He died in 1957, aged 55. His work was highly influential on later generations of gay artists, notably Tom of Finland.