1910s Massachusetts Boston Public Library Bacchante Nude State ink blotter-RARE

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1910s Massachusetts Boston Public Library Bacchante Nude State ink blotter-RARE:
$11.99

Check it out...Here\'s an unusual and VERY UNCOMMON 4” wide by 9 1/4” tall cardboard ink blotter from a printing company in Boston Massachusetts featuring the real photo image of a controversial statue of a nude woman (Known as \"Bacchante and Infant Faun\") that was donated to the Boston Public Library in 1910 and became the center of a firestorm by activists with the WCTU, which ultimately forced it\'s removal-Card features the image of the nude statue & reads: \"Is it true that Boston Society was shocked by the presence of Baccahnte at the Public Library? It is true however that Boston business men are amazed at the great results obtained from the Poole Printing Co.\'s imitation typewritten letters. We are at 12 A Milk St.\" on the front- Blank on back- Great VINTAGE item-RARE! Item is in good condition with usual wear expected from age and normal use and would display so nicely!

Here\'s some history on the controversial and Infant Faun is MacMonnies\' second best-known sculpture. The life-size nude was offered as a gift to the Boston Public Library by the building\'s architect Charles Follen McKim in 1896, to be placed in the garden court of the library. The Woman\'s Christian Temperance Union caused such a public outcry citing its \"drunken indecency\" that the library had to refuse the gift, and McKim gave the statue to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The spectacle that was made regarding this gift, a salvo in the American Culture Wars, gave MacMonnies and this sculpture a great deal of notoriety in the United States: examples of the Bacchante can be found in the permanent collections of most of the large museums in the United States and France. A reduced-size version of the sculpture, rendered in bronze, resides in a private collection in Provenance, New York. The miniature rendition, which stands 30 1/8\" tall, of the work that once struggled to find a home sold for $4,800 at an sale. A copy of the statue has now taken its place in its intended original location in the Boston Public Library. The original statue, loaned to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by George Robert White in 1910 and bequeathed to the MFA in 1930 by White\'s sister, Mrs. Harriet J. Bradbury, is now on display in the MFA\'s new Arts of the Americas Wing.

This is an ORIGINAL item, NOT A REPRODUCTION item! Postage information is listed at the bottom-$ 3.00 postage is required.