DAILY MIRROR | "Too rude" nude is exposed 60 years on | 22 July 2008  Sir Gerald Festus Kelly's "Newport Nude" hit the national headlines in the Daily Mirror once again today, Tuesday 22 July 2008, having made a headline in that paper in 1947.
On 22 July 2008 the "Newport Nude" story was covered in the UK daily press, and thereafter received the global exposure of the web: See news archive of the response to THE ART OF THE NUDE theartofthenude.googlepages.com/news Comments
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Above: Sir Gerald Festus Kelly, D.D. V (a) (Nude Study) (1924): Oil on canvas, 1924; exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Show, 1947 (catalogue number 122), where it was purchased by Newport Museum and Art Gallery
Inset: The Daily Mirror, 31 Dec 1947, A Bishop Objects to "Nude" Bought by Town
* See HERE [ www.flickr.com/photos/art_newport/2671670955/ ] for further historical background on the cause celebre of leading society portraitist and Royal Academy President Sir Gerald Festus Kelly's "Newport Nude", which made the national headlines with this Daily Mirror article of December 1947.
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