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====Date: [[:Category:1951 - 1975|1951 - 1975]] [[:Category:1985 - 1995|1985 - 1995]] [[:Category:|]]====
====Date: [[:Category:1916|1916]] - [[:Category:2010|2010]] ====


====Region: [[:Category:North America|North America]] [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|{location3}]]====
====Region: [[:Category:North America|North America]]====


====Subject: [[:Category:Nudity|Nudity]] [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]====
====Subject: [[:Category:Nudity|Nudity]]====


====Medium: [[:Category:Painting|Painting]] [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]====
====Medium: [[:Category:Painting|Painting]]====
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'''Artist:''' Sylvia Sleigh


'''Confronting Bodies:''' Owners of galleries in New York
[[File:Sleigh.jpg|frame|The artist with one of her paintings.|right|200px]]


'''Dates of Action:''' various
'''Dates of Action:''' 1965-1974


'''Location:''' various
'''Description of Artwork:''' Painted male nudes


'''Description of Artwork:''' Painted male nudes
'''Incidents:'''  


'''The Incident:''' The image of “Seated Portrait in the Garden: Robert Lucy” - painting of nude was used for the invitation card of the show at Stiebel Modern, New York, yet it was cropped just above the pubic hair.  
*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.


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.  
*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.  


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.
*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.  


'''Results of Incident:''' -0


'''Source:''' NCAC
'''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