È meglio conosciuto per i suoi dipinti e disegni di figure di nudo maschile. I suoi lavori combinano elementi di erotismo e critica sociale producendo uno stile spesso chiamato realismo magico, di cui fu esponente anche la pittrice Bridget Bate Tichenor, che frequentò insieme a lui la «Art Students League» di New York.

Lista di opere Jerry, 1931, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio YMCA Locker Room, 1933 Shore Leave, 1933 The Fleet's In!, 1934, Navy Art Gallery, Washington Navy Yard Greenwich Village Cafeteria, 1934 Coney Island (oil painting), 1934, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Coney Island (etching), 1935, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Aspects of Suburban Life: Main Street, 1935, D.C. Moore Gallery Aspects of Suburban Life: Golf, 1936, Virtual Museum of Canada Sailors and Floozies, 1938, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City Pocahontas and John Smith, 1938, Port Washington Post Office Two Boys on a Beach #1, 1938, D.C. Moore Gallery Bathers, 1939 Herrin Massacre, 1940, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio Aviator, 1941 The Shower, 1943 Point O' View, 1945, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts The Seven Deadly Sins, 1945–1949, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Fences, 1946, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas What I Believe, 1947–1948, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas Playground, 1948, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia The Bath, 1951 Manikins, 1951 Bar Italia, 1953–55 Night in Bologna, 1958, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Sunday Sun, 1958–1959 Le Ruban Dénoué: Hommage à Reynaldo Hahn, 1963, Columbus Museum of Art (Philip J. & Suzanne Schiller collection), Columbus, Ohio Jon Anderson in White Tights, 1966 Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas Male Nude, 1966, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri The Eighth Sin: Jealousy, 1982–1983, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City The Haircut, 1986 Final Study for the House that Jack Built, 1987, D.C. Moore Gallery Me: 1940–1990, 1990, D.C. Moore Gallery Jon Reading NM248, 1992, D.C. Moore Gallery Jon Extracting a Splinter NM255, 1993, D.C. Moore Gallery Self-Portrait, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

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