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====Date: [[:Category:1916|1916]] - [[:Category:2010|2010]] ==== | |||
====Region: [[:Category:North America|North America]]==== | ====Region: [[:Category:North America|North America]]==== | ||
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====Medium: [[:Category:Painting|Painting]]==== | ====Medium: [[:Category:Painting|Painting]]==== | ||
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[[File:Sleigh.jpg|frame|The artist with one of her paintings.|right|200px]] | |||
'''Dates of Action:''' 1965-1974 | |||
'''Description of Artwork:''' Painted male nudes | '''Description of Artwork:''' Painted male nudes | ||
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*Sylvia Sleigh had a solo exhibition at the Byron gallery in New York in 1965 and it included a painting of a nude man, Harvey Symonds, ''The Red Chair''. According to the artist “the gallery owner’s mother saw it at the opening and was so shocked that I was dropped from the gallery.” | |||
*The nude painting ''Seated Portrait in the Garden: Robert Lucy'' was used for the invitation card of the show at Stiebel Modern, New York, yet it was cropped just above the pubic hair. | |||
*In the show at Rhode Island University in 1974 two different versions of invitation card were produced – one of a nude sent to artistic audience, the other with two clothed figures – for the general public. | |||
'''Source:''' NCAC, [http://www.freymondguth.com/SSleigh.html A collection of the artist's work can be found here] | |||
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Latest revision as of 18:01, 11 August 2011
Date: 1916 - 2010
Region: North America
Subject: Nudity
Medium: Painting
The artist with one of her paintings.
Dates of Action: 1965-1974
Description of Artwork: Painted male nudes
Incidents:
- Sylvia Sleigh had a solo exhibition at the Byron gallery in New York in 1965 and it included a painting of a nude man, Harvey Symonds, The Red Chair. According to the artist “the gallery owner’s mother saw it at the opening and was so shocked that I was dropped from the gallery.”
- The nude painting Seated Portrait in the Garden: Robert Lucy was used for the invitation card of the show at Stiebel Modern, New York, yet it was cropped just above the pubic hair.
- In the show at Rhode Island University in 1974 two different versions of invitation card were produced – one of a nude sent to artistic audience, the other with two clothed figures – for the general public.
Source: NCAC, A collection of the artist's work can be found here
