Jared French

Jared French (1905–1988) was an American painter associated with Magic Realism, known for his enigmatic, psychologically charged figurative works that blend classical composition with dreamlike, often homoerotic imagery. Closely associated with fellow artists Paul Cadmus and George Tooker, French co-founded the photographic collaboration group PaJaMa alongside Cadmus and his wife Margaret Hoening French. His paintings frequently explore themes of myth, desire, and the human body, rendered with a precise, tempera-based technique influenced by Renaissance masters.