St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-21
NUDE HOTEL Art.
The Things i'm Color Which Shock
Quiet Quakers.

Philadelphia Letter.
Indignation reigns just now among the
staid guests of that ancient hostelrie known
as the Girard house, and an evacuation is
threatened by the goody-goody people who
have hitherto made the hotel their
abiding place. Their sense of prOpriety has
sustained a severe shock, owing to the in
PRODUCTION of four oil paintings of nude fe-
male figures in the new arcade entrance to
the house from Ninth street. and they say
they will shake the dust of the Girard from
their feet and HE away elsewhere unless
mine host Moore puts dresses upon the pink
limbs of his sportive nymphs. Trouble has
been brewing for Mr.. Moore ever since
the paintings appeared a couple of days
ago, and to-day several of the leaders in the
party who consider themselves outraged an
nounced their intention to vacate their
rooms If the vulgarity OF these alleged
works Of art is not speedily modified. Mr..
Moore has just spent $35, 900 in fitting
up in gorgeous style a magnificent and
spacious bar-rOom, opening his house to
Ninth street and making the entrance to
rival, in his estimation, anything of the
kind in the country. AS climax to the
extrayagant decoration of the arcade, he
filled four medallions, which until a short
time ago were bare, with allegOrical repre-
sensations of the seasons. The paintings
are more snowy than artistic and consider
able liberty has been taken with the lines
OF beauty OF the female figure. The picture
OF spring" represents young woman,
from whose nakednesS group OF cherubs
are unwrapping the thinnest of thin wells
and who is falling over backward, much as
Venus is described to have fallen in Shake
speare's poem of 'sVenus and Adonis."
Summer is depicted by three ill-shapen
females about to take a bath. In the fore
ground one of them entirely nude stands
with an apology for a garment, which she
has just removed, held high above her head.
while in the background the other two sit
| upon messy bank and bangle their toes in
the water. Autumn" shows a group of
nude females and cherubs reyelling among
punches of grapes with impossible leaves,
while winter is represented by an entirely
nude young woman sitting half-frozen upon
pile OF snow; her guitar with broken
string, she has thrown away, her fingers
being too cold to play. These members she
holds to her mouth and crouches down
within herself, apparently unmindful of a
little naked cherub who is offering her
muff.
These are the pictures which have caused
beautiful, but his ideas Of art are apparently
not of high ORDER and they have become
already the laughing-stock of the artists
about town and others who know something
of what pictures ought to be.
The Glrard has long been a family hotel,
but these paintings promise to change its
character. One gentleman who has his wife
and daughters there Indignantly declares
that he will not keep his family in house
where the proprieties are outraged in this
manner. ''Those paintings" he said to-
day, s'are fit for a bar-room possibly, ''bui
such vulgar things are out of place in the
entrance lobby of respectable hotel II
gives the place disreputable appearance
as soon as you enter the door, and the i'm
preston that visitor gains of the character
of the house, from looking upon them, is
such as [ do not care house to have in
which my wife and daughter reside"