Vedic Horoscope for Steers, Hugh Auchincloss

American painter whose work, primarily figurative painting, is featured in the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Denver Art Museum. He painted in a style that mixed dreamlike allegory with Expressionist-tinged realism and incorporated art history references. In the 1990s, his work increasingly dealt with AIDS and many of his paintings showed male figures alone nearly nude or clothed in women's attire. Steers also depicted pairs of men bathing, dressing each other, and embracing. In his final works, he painted a self-portrait of a man dressed in a white hospital gown with white high heels. The figure is shown entering the lives of other characters as both an avenging and a guardian angel.Sy Scholfield quotes birth news, "Uncle Jack Gets a New Republican Nephew," The Evening Sun (Baltimore, Maryland), 19 June 1962, page 14; born at George Washington Hospital.