Audrey Munson Again

The New York Times recently (December, 2007) published an article which starts off with this sentence: "ANDREA GEYER, a German-born artist, would later describe her first encounter with the famous statue as a moment of intimacy between two living beings" and containing the following quote:

"What becomes of the artists' models?" she asked in a column published in 1921. "I am wondering if many of my readers have not stood before a masterpiece of lovely sculpture or a remarkable painting of a young girl, her very abandonment of draperies accentuating rather than diminishing her modesty and purity, and asked themselves the question, 'Where is she now, this model who was so beautiful?'"

This was written by the beautiful and not entirely forgotten Audrey Munson, model for the awesome and alluring Star Maiden. It is nice to see the New York Times reporting on her career and ultimate strange fate. Read the article here: The Girl Beneath the Gilding.