Posted on 25/02/03
The mother of all controversies
CAMBRIDGE, ONT. -- When one raises the subject of children in art, many Canadian art-history buffs will think first of Paul Peel's Venetian Bather of 1889, a painting now in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. A sinuous and silky rear view of a naked boy, it was the first nude to be exhibited publicly in Canada. While portraits of women (or men) in the buff were still considered too outré, naked children were considered safe stuff.
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