What becomes of the artist's models?

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 ask themselves the question, where

is she now?

This model who was so beautiful.

By the time Audrey Munson turned 25 years old, she had become a muse for some of the

most famous artists in America, the busiest artist model of her day.

She was such a fixture of the Greenwich Village art world that she was called the Venus of

Washington Square.

Her face and figure adorned public sculpture and museum masterpieces, and they do to this

day.

On the southwest corner of Central Park, you'll find her atop the regal pylon of the main

monument.

Near the southeast corner of the park, sits the Pulitzer fountain and the nude image of

Pomona, goddess of abundance.

That too is Audrey.

She scattered throughout the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

She stares over the city from the Manhattan Municipal Building.

She lives forever in mansion pediments and ornate tombstones.

She mourns those firemen who have died in action and the lost souls of the Titanic.

But just a few years after working with these great artists, Audrey Munson disappeared

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