05 works, The Art Of The Nude, Diane Arbus' In a Nudist Camp, with footnotes #232

Diane Arbus

A Waitress in a Nudist Camp in New Jersey, c. 1963

Gelatin silver print

15 x 14 3/4 in. (38.1 x 37.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Diane Arbus

A husband and wife in the woods at a nudist camp, N.J., c. 1963

Gelatin silver print

21.5 × 19.6 cm (8 1/2 × 7 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Transgressing traditional boundaries, Diane Arbus is known for her highly desirable, groundbreaking portraiture taken primarily in the American Northeast during the late 1950s and 1960s. Famous for establishing strong personal relationships with her subjects, Arbus' evocative images capture them in varied levels of intimacy. More on this photograph

Diane Arbus

Nudist lady with swan sunglasses, Pa., c. 1965

Gelatin silver print

14 1/2 x 14 3/4 in. (36.8 x 37.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Among Diane Arbus’s most celebrated studies of nudist life, this photograph was one of five on the subject included in the Museum of Modern Art’s New Documents, an influential 1967 group show that featured her work. More on this photograph

Diane Arbus 1923–1971

Young Girl at Nudist Camp, c. 1965

Gelatin silver print

14½ h × 14½ w in (37 × 37 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Diane Arbus 1923–1971

A Family One Evening in a Nudist Camp, Pennsylvania, c. 1965

Gelatin silver print

 41.9 x 39.4 cm (16 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches)

RISD Museum

Diane Arbus told stories that had previously gone untold. Disrupting ideas of photographic portraiture, she photographed people who were cast out from the mainstream such as transvestites, nudists or circus  performers. As in Girl in a coat lying on her bed, NYC, Arbus keeps subjects unnamed, but specifies data on their location and activity. She was one of the first to cross the boundary between editorial photography and the museum, establishing photography as a collectible medium.

Unfortunately, she did not live to see her full impact on the art world. A year after committing suicide, her works were shown at the 1972 Venice Biennale, making her the first American photographer to have pictures featured at the event. She’s now considered one of the most important photographers of the 20th-century, with her artworks realizing a total of $2,007,598 at auction last year. More on Diane Arbus

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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Paul-Émile Bécat's Reclining nude with an attendant, with footnotes #231

Paul-Émile Bécat, (FRENCH, 1885-1960)

A reclining nude with an attendant, c. 1939

Oil on canvas

38 1/8 x 51 1/4in (96.8 x 130.2cm)

Private collection

Sold for US$15,075 in July 2020

Paul-Émile Bécat (2 February 1885 – 1 January 1960 in Paris) was a French painter, printmaker and engraver, and was awarded first prize in the Prix de Rome in 1920. He was a student of Gabriel Ferrier and François Flameng and exhibitioned at the Salon de Paris in 1913. Returning from his travels to the Congo, Gabon, and the Sudan, he specialised from 1933 in the technique of drypoint in his erotic works. Today he is best known for his portraits of French writers, and for his erotic works. More on Paul-Émile Bécat

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02 works, The Art Of The Nude, Robert Brackman's Muse, with footnotes #229

ROBERT BRACKMAN, 1898 - 1980

MORNING CHORE

Oil on canvas

28 by 22 inches (71.1 by 55.9)

Private collection

Estimate for 6,000 – 8,000 USD in September 2019

Robert Brackman, American, 1898-1980

A Muse, c. 1936

Oil on canvas

25 1/8 x 30 1/8 inches

Private collection

Sold for $2,813 USD in Jul 2013

 Muse, in Greco-Roman religion and mythology, any of a group of sister goddesses of obscure but ancient origin, in Boeotia, Greece. They were born in Pieria, at the foot of Mount Olympus. Very little is known of their cult, but they had a festival every four years at Thespiae. They probably were originally the patron goddesses of poets, although later their range was extended to include all liberal arts and sciences—hence, their connection with such institutions as the Museum (Mouseion, seat of the Muses) at Alexandria, Egypt. There were nine Muses as early as Homer’s Odyssey, and Homer invokes either a Muse or the Muses collectively from time to time. More on Muses

Robert Brackman (September 25, 1898 – July 16, 1980) was an American artist and teacher of Ukrainian origin, best known for large figural works, portraits, and still lifes. Born in Odes'ka Oblast, Ukraine, he emigrated from the Russian Empire in 1908.

Brackman studied at the National Academy of Design from 1919 to 1921, and the Ferrer School in San Francisco. From 1931, he had a long career teaching at the Art Students League of New York where he was a life member. He also taught at the American Art School in New York City, the Brooklyn Museum School, the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, and the Madison Art School in Connecticut. In 1932, Brackman was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full member in 1940.

Brackman was married to Rochelle Post; they later divorced. He had two daughters with his second wife. More on Robert Brackman

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07 works, The Art Of The Nude, Julius Leblanc Stewart's Reclining nudes, with footnotes #227

Julius LeBlanc Stewart

Before the Fire, c. 1912

Oil on canvas

152 by 110cm., 60 by 43¾in.

Private collection

Sold for 27,500 GBP in February 2017

Julius LeBlanc Stewart

The Glade, c. 1900

Oil, canvas

151.1 x 121.9 cm

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, US

Julius Leblanc Stewart American, 1855-1919

Reclining Nude by an Oriental Screen, circa 1900

Oil on canvas laid to board

28 1/4 x 47 1/4 inches (71.7 x 120 cm)

Private collection

Sold for  $12,500 USD in Mar 2018

Julius Leblanc Stewart, (1855-1919)

Poppy field with reclining nude, c. 1900

Oil on canvas

79 x 108 cm

Private collection

Sold for 250 000 SEK in

Attributed to Julius LeBlanc Stewart, (American/French, 1855-1919)

Reclining Nude in Verdant Landscape

Oil on canvas

18" x 24", framed 28" x 34"

Private collection

Sold for $2,800 USD in Dec 2021

JULIUS LEBLANC STEWART AMERICAN 1855 - 1919

UN NU SUR LA PELOUSE, c. 1899

Oil on canvas

41 5/8 by 55 3/8 in. 105.7 by 141.1 cm

Private collection

Sold for 46,875 USD in  November 2010

Julius LeBlanc Stewart (September 6, 1855, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — January 5, 1919, Paris, France), was an American artist who spent his career in Paris. A contemporary of fellow expatriate painter John Singer Sargent, Stewart was nicknamed "the Parisian from Philadelphia".

His father, the sugar millionaire William Hood Stewart, moved the family from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Paris in 1865, and became a distinguished art collector and an early patron of Marià Fortuny and the Barbizon artists. Julius studied under Eduardo Zamacois as a teenager, under Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts, and later was a pupil of Raymondo de Madrazo.

Stewart's family wealth enabled him to live a lush expatriate life and paint what he pleased, often large-scaled group portraits. 

He exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon from 1878 into the early 20th century, and helped organize the "Americans in Paris" section of the 1894 Salon. 

Late in life, he turned to religious subjects, but Stewart is best remembered for his Belle Époque society portraits and sensuous nudes. More Julius LeBlanc Stewart 

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02 works, The Art Of The Nude, Hananiah Harari's Nude Descending a Stairs after Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones's The Golden Stairs, with footnotes #230

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt 1833–1898

The Golden Stairs, c. 1880

Oil paint on canvas

2692 × 1168mm

Tate 

The Golden Stairs is one of the best-known paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones. It was begun in 1876 and was exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1880.

Unlike many of Burne-Jones's works, The Golden Stairs is not based on a literary source. It has been called Symbolist, as it has no recognisable narrative, but rather sets a mood. It is a harmony of color in the tradition of the Aesthetic works of the 1860s and 1870s, as a group of young women carrying musical instruments descend a spiraling staircase, dressed in classically inspired robes in tones of white, shading to gold and silver. More on this painting

Hananiah Harari, American, 1912-2000

Nude Descending a Stairs

Oil on canvas

74 x 38 inches

Private collection

Sold for $13,750 USD in June 2016

Statement by the Artist: "Serendipity led me to the Pre-Raphaelite Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones whose painting The Golden Stairs suggested a scaffold for my own. His Victorian maidens, a saccharine demiseraphic troupe, were for me quite naturally no more embraceable than Duchamp's metallic robots. However the sweep of Burne-Jones' design provided my nude her stage. She makes entrance, then descends to diverse portraits comprising not only head, but body & temper - revealed step by step as it were, in shifting colors, light, and action. After "performing" in choreographed (sometimes mocking) descent , she exits below to Art and to the World. (My debt to Burne-Jones is acknowledged in the lower right hand corner of my work, where his name can be seen on a crumpled candy-wrapper.) " 

Hananiah Harari (August 29, 1912 – July 19, 2000) was an American painter and illustrator.

Harari was born in Rochester, New York. He studied at the Syracuse University School of Fine Arts. He went to Paris in the 1930s, where he studied with Fernand Léger from 1932–34; he also studied with Marcel Gromaire and André Lhote. Following a visit to Palestine, he returned to the United States in 1935. 

His first New York exhibition was in 1939. He worked in both a semi-abstract style, and a precise realist style; he painted many trompe l'oeil still lifes. Several silkscreens from this period are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in the Yale University Collection.

In the 1940s he produced artwork for the covers of magazines, and contributed cartoons to The New Masses Using his gifts for Realism, he became a successful portrait painter. One of his portraits is in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. Harari taught at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan from 1974 to 1990, and at the Art Students League from 1984 to 1999, where most of his classes were filled to capacity. He stopped teaching when he could no longer see. He was elected into the National Academy of Design in 1990 as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1994.

He died in Halthorne, New York in 2000. More on Hananiah Harari

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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Carl Wilhelm Wilhelmson's Melusina, with footnotes #226

Carl Wilhelm Wilhelmson, (1866-1928)

Melusina, c. 1917

Oil on Canvas

97 x 168 cm

Private collection

Melusina was a mythical figure from European folklore, a water nymph who is often portrayed with the upper body of a beautiful woman but the lower that of a fish, or serpent. The most complete retelling of what was probably a more ancient legend, dates from the end of the 14th century and recounts how Melusina and her sisters were punished by their mother for imprisoning their father in a mountain as an act of revenge for his failure to keep his promise not to enter her chamber when she was giving birth or bathing her children. Melusina’s singular punishment was for her lower body to become that of a serpent – but only on Saturday. More on Melusina

Carl Wilhelm Wilhelmson (12 November 1866, Fiskebäckskil - 24 September 1928, Gothenburg) was a Swedish painter, graphic artist, amateur photographer and art teacher.

Some relatives were in the printing business so, in 1881, he was apprenticed to the lithographers Meyer & Köster in Gothenburg. He also took evening classes at the School of Design and Crafts. He later became a full time student of Carl Larsson at the Valand Academy.

In 1888 he was awarded a scholarship from the Kommerskollegium that enabled him to travel to Leipzig. While there, he worked for several notable lithography firms. By 1890, he had saved enough money to move to Paris.

In Paris, he worked as an advertising artist while taking classes at the Académie Julian. In 1893, he visited Brittany and, in 1895, had a small showing at the Salon. He returned to Sweden in 1896.

Upon his return, the art patron, Pontus Fürstenberg, invited him to become the Director at the Valand Academy. He accepted and held that position until 1910. After leaving the Academy, he opened his own art school. He made expeditions to Norrland in 1914 and 1918 and produced several well known paintings in Bohuslän. He was appointed a Professor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in 1925 and became a member in 1926, in reverse of the usual order.

In addition to his canvases, he painted murals. 

The passenger ferry that operates between Fiskebäckskil and Lysekil is named after him, as is a street in the Lunden district of Gothenburg. Carl Wilhelm Wilhelmson

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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, David Nicholson's Mousetrap, with footnotes #221

David Nicholson

Mousetrap, c. 2015

Oil on canvas

Private collection

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon or make a better mouse trap than his neighbors, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. Ralph Waldo Emerson

David Nicholson (Canadian, born 1970). Although the style and colour palette of the paintings and drawings of the Canadian-born David Nicholson bear a resemblance to the works of the Old Masters, they are unquestionably modern. Traditional culture juxtaposed with modernity is the starting point for his work. He has no educational background in the arts. He is a self-taught artist who acquired the techniques and aesthetics of the masters of the past, with Peter Paul Rubens, Egon Schiele, and Gustav Klimt as his role models. He finds inspiration in the works and the spirit of the past, which he endeavours to project onto the present. He is interested, among other things, in finding ways to transpose a single element from an old work into a modern painting. The pictorial world of the internet and depiction of women by his role models – Rubens, Klimt, and Schiele – are equally valuable sources of inspiration for his artistic process. This way, he comments on other pieces of art as well as on current topics such as the ideals of beauty, sexuality, and pornography. More on David Nicholson

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