Reclining Nude in Chicago

New edition 2024

Set to interview Matisse expert and curator Pierce Marten in a Chicago loft, freelance art writer Julia Van Rothfelder is mistaken for an artist's life model.

Finding herself reclining nude posing for a handsome casually dressed curator, nothing like what she had imagined, a well-groomed man in a business suit enters the artist loft.

As Julia surveys the two men standing before her, she wonders...

Who is the new man?

Who is the man behind the canvas?

And better question, why am I nude?