The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-14
TEE NUDE IN ART
Some Startling Pictures Exhib-
tied in New York.
AN EXACT REGARD FOR DETAILS
Visitors Go Away shocked-The Drawings
Made by Men ana Women
Students from Life.

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatoh.l
New YORK, May 13-This years. exhibit
ton of the National Academy of Design at
$50 East Twenty Third street is made up
largely of drawings from the nude. full of
such startling realism and having such ex-
act regard for detail that visitors have
come away shocked.
The annual exhibition of drawings by
students of the academy is made in compe-
tition for medals and other rewards of
merit. 1t opened this morning. Invita-
tons to view this exhibition of drawings
have been sent out during the past few
days to large number of people, and the
attendance today and this evening was, as
usual, composed of not only the art lovers
of the city, but the general public, among
whom were
MANY YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN.
The academy of design is one of the oldest
and most conservative Of New York insti-
buttons.
Some four or FIVE years ago a change in
its management occurred and the institu-
| ton has become progressive with constant
and gratifying Improvement and the char
acter of its annual exhibitions. The ma
jority of The exhibits are drawings made by
men and women students in night and day
life classes. To these, two models are fur
nished-a man and woman-who pose be-
fore them. The result of the work of
these students, which the New York pub
lie has been invited to witness, while in
many cases evidencing much ability, is
DECIDEDLY STARTLING,
to say the least, TO be placed on public ex-
hibition. When it is considered that the
drawings have been made by young men
and women with the most careful exact
ness, that the models have taken many diff
ferent pastures and that NO details what
ever have been left out or even slurred
over, it may not, perhaps, be wondered al
that the suppressed murmur was heard in
the room this morning when the first visit
ors were admitted and that several young
women, after moments inspection on one
or two of the drawings and q hasty glance
around the room, which revealed hundred:
of others of a similar nature, left the room
quickly with
FLUSHED CHEEKS AND DowNCAsT EYES.
The drawings of the day life class ar
particularly noticeable. Well done as the!
are, they could not certainly be reproduced
in any newspaper or published as illustra
lions to any book without the same beinl
quickly suppressed by thesauthorities, ant
yet they are hung up on the walls of thu
public gallery for public inspection.
The models were young woman of mos
graceful form and magnificent neck, hea
and hair, and young man finely developed
cleau-liInbed, sineWy-evidently an ath
lete. So great was the devotion to ar
shown in transcriDing upon paper in blacl
and white, and in few instances in colo
on canvas, the forms and features of these
models. that the customary draperies wer
dispensed with in majority of the draw
ings and sketches.
: The work of the night class is of til
: same general nature as that of the da
l class aad quite as startling. The youn
t man who escorted some fair friend to tn
academy of design this evening and VIII
1 innocently or ignorantly invited her t
Q look on the work of the students mu:
: have felt himself placed in most embar
: RAISING situation. Several couples who Ell
D tered the room this afternoon were seen
: leave it very precipitately.