Art: Nudes Napoo

Napoo last week were nudes in two unusual cases:

> At the Chicago Art Institute’s large and brilliant International Watercolor show,* visitors congregated around Ivan Le Lorraine Albright’s When Fall Winds Blow, a portrait of two junky old houses. Reason: Submitted last year under the title Second Stories Are Popular, it was rejected because of a pink nude in one window. Artist Albright had now partly covered the girl with a shutter, painted not on the canvas but on the glass in front of it.

> In the press dining room at the San Francisco Fair two ghastly murals of Peace and War, crammed with sexy and hirsute nudes of both sexes, were covered with drapes. Said one Fair official: “It isn’t good for the digestion.”

* Otherwise notable because Chicago Tribune Critic Eleanor Jewett, panner of previous shows for “modernism” (TIME, May 16), praised this one for the same.