ABSTRACT
The degree of culture of an individual or a community can fairly be judged by their views in regard to the Nude in Art. Up to about forty years ago St. Louis was but an overgrown village, with all the narrow prejudices of a rural community. To the St. Louisans of those days the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and Eome were shamelessly naked; and when works of the Nude in Art were brought to St. Louis fairs or exhibitions they were either excluded from the art galleries, or they caused a storm of indignant protest in the daily papers from a shocked and puritanical public.
