The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-12-19
NAKED MODEL CLASS.
How Enthusiastic art Students Pursue
Their Studies.
Washington Post.

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Of young artists who are studying
from living models. The attempt
made last winter to carry into exc
cution an idea of this kind was only
partially suecessful, but through
the energetic efforts ofAfr. E. Clar-
ence Messer the President of the
club, the plan has received a prom
ising inauguration. The rooms
were. rented in the Young Mems
Christian Association Building.
These were fitted up in a suitable
manner and at some expense. Gas
lights were arranged around the
room so as to throw the best light
on the easelS of the artist students,
and at the same time to show off the
model TO he best advantage.
These necessary improvements
were completed. last week, and the
class at once took possession of its
rooms. They had only worked two
nights when the Y. NJ. G. a. seem
ed to become enlightened as to what
the artists were doing, and in holy
horror at having naked figures ex-
posed in their building, even for
the purpose of art, Immediately
served a notice upon the club, who
were forewith compelled to vacate.
They have now secured rooms IN
the st. Clouds building, at the cor
ner OF Ninth and T. streets, where
they hope to study and paint un-
molested.
A reporter of the Post interviewed
| yesterday, Mr.. George w. Forsberg,
a we'll known artist, and member
cf the club, from whom some inter
esting facts were gained, concerning
the purpose OF the organization, and
about the living models.
"How many members has the
club" asked the Post.
eve have Eow about twenty" "Was
the reply. "They are all young men
who have painted from life, in Lon
don, Paris and Berlin, while abroad
and wish to continue their studies
at home. You know, last winter,
We formed such a club here, but il
was not very we'll known, and we
had but few mem bers."
How do you obtain your mod
els q
"NYe have a committee which is
appointed to select them. Oh
course any body and every body will
not do, for we must have only those
whose form is perfect in every par
ticular. Applicants for the position
are examined by the committee,and
/ if they suit they are at once engag
ed"
"But do you not have some diff
Guilty in getting applicants"
1--WE have more trouble here il
| Washington than we would have il
| New York or Philadelphia Ii
those cities there are men and wo
men who are trained or this work
and are models by profession. but
| here nothing of the kind exists"
care your models necessarily Sc
lected from the demi-monde2"
! "Not at all; for while We have
many applicants from that class, W.
refuse all of them. On the contra
~. our model at present is a woman
Of frespectibility, who hastaken hi
up because she has no other work
= Sometimes no one but the commit
: tee know who the model is. Las
winter the model We had sitting be
fore us wore a mask. and l would
not know her ON the street were
: to see her now,
How much do you pay these
modelsg"
"We pay the men from 81 t
50 80 per night, but the womeI
are paid as high as So for eacl
sitting. The models are posed be
> hind a screen TO represent the sub
f iect we want TO sketch. Thi
: screen is then removed and thel
we go to work. The models re
main IN position for about half al
hour and then rest for ten or i'll
5 teen minutes.
f "Have you any application
/ from ladies' 10 Join your classes z
yes, certainly; but at presen
we have voted to exclude them
|, l know Of the daughter of a Cab
i net officer, and another of an hoT
5 ored scientific professor, recent
= deceased, who are studying pr
J vately from living models"
DO you think that this famil
d iarity with total absence Of cos
tune is luxurious to the moral
Of the young menF
'NOt at all; for the artists com
: to the class to sketch or paint, AN
! leave, They do not speak to tn
I models, and none Of them woul
); sacrifice his social position-fo
|. all Of them are known In sQciet
n circles-by committing any mil
demeanor.
. In Germany, where / studied
e we had a Professor, who, befoF
d we commenced to work, woul
9 give us a lesson on the physielC
gy Of the body, explaining th
names and uses Of the muscle
> etc. We have no professor her
/ but are going 20 secure the Sc
IT vices Of one as soon as possible