Father and Son
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Stuart Smailes was a happily gay man who left a Seattle $1,000,000 to build a public statue. There was one stipulation: it had to be of a nude man. It will be of a man and his son. One conservative nut case has claimed it is subtly pedophile.
The Seattle Art Museum recently announced that it would use the Smailes bequest for a fountain titled ”Father and Son,” created by Louise Bourgeois, a Frenchborn New York sculptor. It depicts a man and a boy, both nude with a transparent cloak of gushing water, reaching toward each other.
Nudes expose Seattle’s modesty
