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


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


'''Confronting Bodies:''' Owners of galleries in New York
'''Description of Artwork:''' Painted male nudes
 
'''Dates of Action:''' various
 
'''Location:''' various


'''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.  
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.  
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.  


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.”
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.”


'''Results of Incident:''' -0
'''Source:''' NCAC


'''Source:''' NCAC


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Revision as of 18:34, 28 July 2011

Region: North America

Subject: Nudity

Medium: Painting [[:Category:|Category:]] [[:Category:|Category:]]


Description of Artwork: Painted male nudes

Incidents:

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.

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.”

Source: NCAC