[Karin Wells]

In case you wondered, this post began with the following exchange:
Steven Sweeney's post:

...Daniel Greene tells a story that I haven't figured out yet how to use, but I'm working on it.

He was doing a pastel of a young woman in a long dress and he was having trouble getting her posture and gesture right, and finally he asked the woman (a professional model) if she would pose nude so that he could get the anatomy right. She did, he did, and then the dress was painted over the correct anatomy. I suspect that you'd have to be an artist of Greene's stature to pull this off, so to speak....

My reply was that I doubt we will ever hear the following version of THIS old story:

"He was doing a pastel of a dignified old judge in a long robe and he was having trouble getting his posture and gesture right, and finally he asked the judge (a professional of some stature) if he would pose nude so that he could get the anatomy right. He did, Greene did, and then the robe was painted over the correct anatomy. I suspect that you'd have to be an artist of Greene's stature to pull this off, so to speak...