Show AR T BARN NO PRUDE SA SAYS YS NUDE NOT LEWD Lovely ovely Lady in Oils Hangs in Gallery After After Af- Af ter Decide Petticoats Unnecessary When is nude art lewd A lovely maiden in oils hung in the gallery of the Art Barn Thursday her appeal unhampered by petticoats or other oiher apparel ap ap- parel her virtue unchallenged after a heated debate between more than and other art lovers over nudes and their place in public galleries When first shown the canvas provoked controversy but after the debate which was held at atthe atthe the Art Barn Wednesday it was almost unanimously agreed that nudes are arc not Indecent but are art and represent that freedom so necessary to the expression of the true artist With this conclusion reached the gathering of art lovers went wenton on record against barring nudes from Crom public art galleries on the condition however that the subjects sub sub- represent beauty This led to a d discussion ot of beauty by Mrs John Jensen Jense president of the Art Barn and finally the conclusion that art did not need to be pretty to be beautifuL The group also gave itself over overto overto to a discussion of modernistic art artand artand and it was explained that the devices devices de- de vices regarded as grotesque by bythe bythe the average layman are merely means to focus attention on interpretative inter features of oC a picture or piece of sculpture Outstanding in the debate over nudes were the Rev Jacob Trapp Ranch Kimball Mrs Dana C C. Blayney president of the he Salt Lake City Federation of Women's Clubs Leon Loofbourow row Edwin Evans and Mrs Jonas chairman The is by Franz Brasz president of the Cal California ornia Water WaterColor WaterColor Color society It presents a nude woman recumbent in the foreground foreground fore fore- ground with wilh a nude man plowing a field in the background While the work is not titled those inspecting it seemed to think it us dominating thought is the futility fu fu- of nature or something like that It was hung two weeks ago and then the protests began Mr MI Branz was Wa present and took part in the arguments |