As the eldest of three girls I was the lucky one when we moved into our first house to get my own bedroom till another bedroom was built. I quickly turned my cupboard into my first studio with my desk and art supplies neatly laid out. I drew everything a young girl would. Then I started to go to museums with my parents and saw some of the great works of art that had nudes in them. I decided when I came home that my first nude model would be a centerfold from my father’s basement hidden Playboy magazines. In those days the models were still wearing a bottom so all we got to see was the breasts but that was good enough for me. I had found my first nude model to be able to draw the human figure from.
Many years later as we all got older my dad came to us all and said that we all spent time with mom shopping but that now we were older he didn’t see us as much so he decided to make Thursday night date night for all his girls, mom included. So each week on Thursday one of us would get dinner and an event with our dad. I would have been about 14 at the time. He asked us all what we wanted to do and he and I decided to go to the Contemporary Art Museum that was located down near the old port of Montreal at the time, right across the river from the expo 67 Habitat building.
We saw many of the great artist of the time from Judy Chicago, Abakanowicz (http://www.abakanowicz.art.pl/), and Louise Nevelson…
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