Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Censorship's heavy hand descended on Cambridge news merchants yesterday when Police Chief Leahy, objecting to a picture entitled "Nude" in the current issue of Popular Photography, banned the sale of that magazine on all newsstands...
...semi-profile view of a nude model, by Carlisle Blackwell, Jr., leaves little to the imagination. Leahy described it as "indecent" and "tending to corrupt the morals of youth" in his complaint to the New England News Company...
...Aloe Plaza, outside St. Louis' Union Station, a crane last week deposited 19 excelsior-padded, jute-swathed statues on the pavement of a waterless fountain. The bulky packages looked like mummies but were the livelier fragments of a long controversy (TIME, Aug. 9, 1937; June 6, 1938) over nude statues in general, these in particular. They were the figures for famed Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles' Wedding of the Mississippi and the Missouri-known locally as Wedding in a Nudist Colony...
...have accepted him sooner. Not until 1932 did dealers and critics pierce his smoke screen of self-publicity, discover that his naive, whimsical paintings were worthy of serious attention. For a song, dealers then snapped up his lush romantic landscapes, his pictures of Samoa, his moonlit fantasies, his strange nude "nymphs" bathing in improbable streams. These have since sold at high prices, while Eilshemius went in want. Last week his three Manhattan dealers agreed to cut him in on a percentage of future sales...
take a picture of a nude holding a transparent bubble...