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Artist Chabas, an established academician, worked slowly. His sessions lasted only 30 minutes each, and the posing continued for two more summers, until one September morning in 1912 the picture was finally finished. In honor of the day, Chabas called his canvas Matinée de Septembre-"September Morn." Shown...
...Lewd & Indecent." Comstock was strolling down a street in midtown Manhattan one May day in 1913 when the naked blonde vision, displayed in the window of an art gallery, caught his horrified gaze. Storming in, Comstock flashed his police badge and roared: "There's too little morn and too much maid. Take her out!" The gallery refused. Next day the story was splashed across the front pages of Manhattan's dailies, and the picture had become famous. Enraged cries of "lewd and indecent" were met with the New York Times's indignant defense that the picture...
September Morn went on to become a staple of calendar art, was reproduced on candy boxes, postcards, cigars and suspenders. Purity leagues demanded its suppression. Postcard reproductions of the painting were forbidden the mails. Art dealers were even arrested for handling them. It became the subject of stock gags on the old Keith-Orpheum circuit, and inspired an anonymous couplet that swept the country...
...remembers vividly when "she knelt right down in the street at the time there was a thing called Halley's comet." On the day of the Resurrection, Spencer paints the whole Cookham churchyard opening up as the dead come forth. In one version Spencer portrays himself on judgment morn, leaning against a tombstone, his work apparently done...
...soul ("Wanna walk an' talk with my Lord," he bawls, tousled and sweating), and perhaps to his particular audience his shallows of the spirit seem like deeps. On the other hand, the screamers and shriekers and long, ecstatic moaners, as he drags out tormentedly "a favourite of my Morn and Dad's," are clearly getting a separate satisfaction out of their own behaviour. In fact so much of the performance is contributed from the auditorium that it is as hard to assess its merits as it is to explain its success. On the last score, the ostentatiously worn...