On June 8th, 1891, Audrey Marie Munson was born, a woman that would become famous as 'America's first supermodel" yet unknown, however, she is quite visible still in the streets of New York City, if you know where to look. In her prime, she worked as a film and theatre actress, an 'art' model, and was known colloquially as Miss Manhattan, Panama-Pacific Girl, Exposition Girl, and and American Venus.
"What becomes of the artists' 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 asked themselves the question, "Where is she now, this model who was so beautiful?"
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