Column: Helping a couple of ’60s hippies find a new home
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Modified: 12/14/2020 10:10:14 PM
Old hippies never die. They just go to Vermont and hang out in my guest room, naked.
I’ve had these two hippies in my home since 1992. They were thrown out of a Saks Fifth Avenue display window 51 years ago, in 1969, after they caused a scandal on the sidewalks of New York City.
They are life-sized, full-frontal nude paintings depicting Adam and Eve as hippies by the Manhattan artist Douglas Semonin, who had been commissioned by Saks to create a “Garden of Eden” display window representing the “hip” attitudes of the 1960s. He painted Eve as Jane Fonda, in her role as Barbarella in the 1968 film of the same name, and Adam as the Beatles’ John Lennon, with shoulder length hair, a beard and actual sunglasses. Eve has hair the color of a tomato, a s