Online exhibition of works by Malcolm McKesson

available for purchase through this website. All inquiries about these works may be placed to Katharine Gates at gates@gatesofheck.com.

Works are also available through Sailor's Valentine Gallery in Nantucket, Henry Boxer Gallery in London; Louise Ross Gallery and Robert Manley in New York City.

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Online preview of Matriarchy: Freedom in Bondage

"Beautifully strange, ornately decorous"
- John Strausbaugh, The New York Press, 1/14/97

Matriarchy: Freedom in Bondage was the life's work of reclusive artist Malcolm McKesson, who died in 1999 at the age of 89. Malcolm had been secretly writing and illustrating this semi-autobiographical erotic novel for the past thirty years. Matriarchy follows the extraordinary transformation of a young man abducted into willing submission as a servant to a stern mistress who teaches him to "curb his manly nature". The protagonist learns to take on the roles of daughter, page-boy and husband, each with appropriate costume. With its intense and atmospheric line drawings and evocative descriptions of exotic costumes, rituals and bondage devices, "Matriarchy" reveals an inner mythology created in ecstatic seclusion, a subversive world of courtly eroticism. This novel promises to become a classic in the tradition of "The Story of O" and "Venus in Furs".

• Introduction by Tony Thorne
• Chapter One
• Chapter Two
• Chapter Three
• Chapter Four
• Press Release

   

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