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xoxoxoBruce Sunday Mar 13 11:33 PM |
Mar 14th, 2016: NYC's First Supermodel Audrey Munson was born in 1891. Quote:
But it was the first time in a non-porn American film the leading lady got naked. It was a hit. You can see... uh, more of her in this NSFW thread. The sculptors she posed for... Herbert Adams Priestess of Culture (1914) – PPIE, now in Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Robert Ingersoll Aitken Earth (1915) – PPIE - Court of the Universe Panama-Pacific International Exposition medal (1915) Figure on doors of the Greenhut & John W. Gates Mausoleums Karl Bitter Pomona or Abundance (1915) – Pulitzer Fountain in Grand Army Plaza, NYC Venus de Milo ("Venus with arms") for Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands Alexander Stirling Calder Star Maiden (1915) – PPIE - Court of the Universe, now in the Oakland Museum Eastern Hemisphere (1915) – PPIE - Fountain of Energy Daniel Chester French Melvin Brothers Memorial (1908) – Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts Commerce and Jurisprudence (1910) – Federal Building, Cleveland Ohio Genius of Creation and Eve (1915) – PPIE, plaster now at Chesterwood in Stockbridge, Massachusetts Brooklyn and Manhattan – Brooklyn Museum of Art, NYC Memory – Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC Mourning Victory – Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC Spirit of Life (1914) – Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana. Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey Evangeline, Longfellow Memorial (1912) – Cambridge, Massachusetts Trask Memorial (1915) – Saratoga Springs, New York Wisconsin (1912) – figure on top of Wisconsin State Capitol dome Sherry Edmundson Fry Torch Bearer (1915) – PPIE Muse and Pan (1915) – PPIE Maidenhood – Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina pediment (1913) – Frick Collection Building, NYC Albert Jaegers Rain (1915) – PPIE Harvest (1915) – PPIE Carl Augustus Heber Figures on tablet outside the Little Theatre Spirit of Commerce – Manhattan Bridge, NYC Isidore Konti Mother and Child – private collection of Richard & Lydia Kaeyer Three Muses – Hudson River Museum Three Graces Y– lobby of the Hotel Astor, NYC Pomona – Konti finished the work after Karl Bitter was killed Figure within the Column of Progress (1915) – PPIE Widowhood Genius of Immortality (1911) – Hudson River Museum Evelyn Beatrice Longman Fountain of Ceres (1915) – PPIE - Court of Four Seasons Consecration (1915) – PPIE, now in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut Augustus Lukeman Ida Straus and Isidor Straus Memorial – Straus Park, Manhattan, NYC Frederick MacMonnies Niche figure – New York Public Library, NYC Allen Newman Music of the Waters Fountain – Riverside Drive, NYC Attilio Piccirilli Alone (1915) – PPIE Maine Memorial, figure on top and figure at base – Central Park, NYC Duty and Sacrifice (1913) – Firemen’s Memorial, NYC Firio Piccirilli Fountain of Spring (1915) – PPIE Frederick Ruckstull South Carolina Women’s Monument (1911) – Columbia, South Carolina Adolph Alexander Weinman Descending Night – PPIE - Fountain of Setting Sun and various museums Civic Fame (1913) – figure on top of the Manhattan Municipal Building US Walking Liberty Half Dollar, and possible model for the Mercury dime (both 1916) Day and Night (1906) – figures from Pennsylvania Station, NYC Albert G. Wenzel Madam Butterfly Figure over the proscenium (1903) – New Amsterdam Theater, NYC[6] Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney The Fountain of El Dorado (1915) – PPIE Munson in Inspiration, 1915 Munson in Purity 1916 Others sculptures at Panama-Pacific International Exposition Fountain of Ceres, Court of Four Seasons Fountain of Rising Sun, Court of Universe Pedestal & Friezes, Columns of Human Progress Air, Court of Universe Spirit of Creation, Court of Universe Nature, Feast of Sacrifice, Court of Four Seasons Pylon Groups, Festival Hall Conception, Wonderment, and Contemplation, Palace of the Fine Arts Unfortunately the landlord of the boarding house where she lived with her Mom, was obsessed with her and after they moved out killed his wife to court Ms Munson. He was caught but the scandal ruined her career. Quote:
link Griff Monday Mar 14 07:18 AM Sad end.
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