Word: nude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corbusier, the U.S.'s Raymond Hood. In 1935, it successfully arranged the American canonization of Vincent van Gogh. In 1936, its Cubism and Abstract Art show was a glamorously complete record of the quarter-century since that September Morn of cubism: Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase. In later shows the Museum assembled Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, the works of Picasso. Over the years it has coyly flirted with lusty, callow, sometimes triumphant...
...farther down Maine you go, the more rarely you see nudes in barns. But last fortnight Waldo Peirce of Bangor and Castine, Me. hung his nude Siesta in the Barn (see cut) in Manhattan's Midtown Galleries as the headpiece of a show of 16 oils. Along with several other warm, exhilarating paintings, it suggested that 59-year-old Waldo Peirce is one of the few good painters of simple happiness since Renoir...
...young cellist with very little professional modeling experience and the kind of floral flesh Renoir liked to paint. Maine must still have been on his mind, for according to the model, he would paint pants on her one day, paint them off the next. He gave his nude a musing, pastoral face and the rosy-brown, gently diffused flesh of warm-weather drowsiness. Against the barn's sober timbers, earth floor and haymow, she has the calm glow of a lamp in daylight...
...Hays office.* In desperation at the recent Hays crackdown on leg art, Hollywood publicity cameramen have taken to shooting backsides, which are still within the law. Cracked one harried publicity agent: "Gee, if this keeps up, we'll just have to shoot pictures of girls in the nude...
...summer, 70% of wives sleep in nightgowns, 24% in pajamas (10% more switch to pajamas in winter), 1% in shorts, 5% nude. Sixteen other women said they would like to sleep nude...