{"id":3601,"date":"2011-12-19T16:27:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T23:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3601"},"modified":"2011-12-19T20:17:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T03:17:38","slug":"the-young-woman-who-personified-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3601","title":{"rendered":"The Young Woman Who Personified Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back when it was a print zine and not an (all too irregular) blog, John Yohalem’s Enchant\u00e9<\/em><\/a> had some articles on “gods of the city”\u2014architectural and sculptural representations of the Olympian deities and other Neoclassical figures.<\/p>\n

Somewhere in there, perhaps, were sculptures based on a young woman named Audrey Munson.<\/a><\/p>\n

Dreamy and pale, slender and softly curved, Audrey played muse to a generation of New York City sculptors at the turn of the 20th century. Her undraped figure still graces Central Park, the Metropolitan Museum and the Municipal Building. Though she tried to translate her beauty to the new medium of film, her career ended suddenly as Modernism \u2014 and her 30s \u2014 arrived. . . .<\/p>\n

\"Audrey

Audrey Munson<\/p><\/div>\n

She was asked to personify, among other notions, memory, peace, abundance, mourning, industry, beauty, and America. Her statues still dot her city, from the Firemen\u2019s Memorial in Riverside Park to the Brooklyn Museum. Daniel Chester French, sculptor of \u201cMemory\u201d and later of Lincoln for the president\u2019s Washington, D.C., memorial, called her ethereal. For fame\u2019s sake, Audrey withstood sucking air through a tube while being cast in plaster, dousings with cold water for a piece called \u201cWaterfall,\u201d and endless hours of painful posing. But she seemed at ease unclothed. And despite spending so many hours naked in the company of men, she was often portrayed in news stories as a simple girl-next-door who lived with her mother, a beguiling na\u00eff who said things like, \u201cWhy clothes anyhow?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The rest of her life was not so good<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Back when it was a print zine and not an (all too irregular) blog, John Yohalem’s Enchant\u00e9 had some articles on “gods of the city”\u2014architectural and sculptural representations of the Olympian deities and other Neoclassical figures. Somewhere in there, perhaps, were sculptures based on a young woman named Audrey Munson. 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