Sexuality and Censorship

Waist and legs of a reclining nude seen from the back.
Minor White
Nude Foot
gelatin silver print on paper
11 in x 14 in (27.94 cm x 35.56 cm);19 3/8 in x 14 5/16 in (49.21 cm x 36.35 cm);8 7/16 in x 10 11/16 in (21.43 cm x 27.15 cm);18 1/8 in x 22 1/8 in (46.04 cm x 56.2 cm)
Museum Purchase
This photograph depicts a nude woman standing in a large window overlooking an evening cityscape.
Helmut Newton
Patti Hansen Over Manhattan
gelatin silver print on paper
12 3/16 in x 8 1/8 in (30.96 cm x 20.64 cm)
Gift of Gerald and Selma Lotenberg
Kara Walker
One of five prints from the suite "The Means to an End--A Shadow Drama in Five Acts"
aquatint and etching on light cream Somerset Satin wove paper
34 11/16 x 23 5/16 in. (88.1 x 59.1 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by the Jean Paul Slusser Memorial Fund
Judy Dater
Imogen and Twinka at Yosemite
gelatin silver print on paper
17 15/16 in. x 14 in. ( 45.6 cm x 35.5 cm )
Museum Purchase
Otto Dix
Halbakt
lithograph on off-white laid paper
25 11/16 x 19 13/16 in. (65.1 x 50.3 cm);25 11/16 x 19 13/16 in. (65.1 x 50.3 cm)
Gift of Gilbert M. Frimet
Andy Warhol
Nude Model (Male)
Polacolor on photographic paper
4 1/4 in. x 3 3/8 in. ( 10.8 cm x 8.6 cm )
Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Richard Lebowitz
Edith, from "Photographs Rhode Island School of Design"
gelatin silver print on paper
5 1/4 in. x 5 1/16 in. ( 13.4 cm x 12.8 cm )
Gift of The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, in memory of Morris D. Baker, a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Architecture, 1952
Christian Vogt
Irène
gelatin silver print on paper
9 3/4 in. x 7 11/16 in. ( 24.7 cm x 19.6 cm )
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David C. Ruttenberg through the courtesy of the Ruttenberg Arts Foundation
Paul Cézanne
The Bathers (large plate)
lithograph on paper
16 1/4 in x 20 1/2 in (41.28 cm x 52.07 cm);26 1/16 in x 32 1/16 in (66.2 cm x 81.44 cm);18 15/16 in x 24 3/4 in (48.1 cm x 62.87 cm);16 1/4 in x 20 1/2 in (41.28 cm x 52.07 cm)
Museum Purchase
This photograph depicts a nude woman reclining on a bed, smiling and gazing back at the viewer. 
Helmut Newton
Berlin Nude
gelatin silver print on paper
8 1/16 in x 12 3/16 in (20.48 cm x 30.96 cm)
Gift of Gerald and Selma Lotenberg
Christian Vogt
Sabine
gelatin silver print on paper
9 3/4 in. x 7 11/16 in. ( 24.7 cm x 19.6 cm )
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David C. Ruttenberg through the courtesy of the Ruttenberg Arts Foundation
Mel Ramos
Navajo Nudo
collotype on wove paper
20 1/16 x 26 9/16 in. (50.9 x 67.4 cm)
Gift of Dr. Reuven Bar-Levav

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American Orientalist art at the turn of the 20th century
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American Orientalist art at the turn of the 20th century
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49 Collection Object Sources

Nude Foot (1976/1.200)
Halbakt (1985/1.115)
Nude Model (Male) (2008/2.110)
Irène (1984/2.59)
Berlin Nude (1984/1.277.11)
Sabine (1984/2.62)
Navajo Nudo (1991/2.102.2)
Reclining Nude (2008/2.357)
Madonna and Child (2008/2.107)
Touche Boucher (1991/2.102.3)
Manet's Olympia (1991/2.102.1)
Untitled (2006/1.152)
Irène (1984/2.60)
Yvonne (1984/2.63)
Yvonne (1984/2.61)
Michèle (1984/2.66)
Toni (1984/2.67)
Marianne (1984/2.68)
Regina (1984/2.69)
Petra (1984/2.70)
Bathing Girls (2000/2.167)
Nude Model (Male) (2008/2.109)
Nude Model (Male) (2008/2.111)
Nude Model (Male) (2008/2.112)
Nude Model (Male) (2008/2.113)
New Hope (2010/1.205)
MASTER (2017/2.186)

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