John Lennon’s controversial drawings – John & Yoko exhibition at the Museum of Liverpool
Victoria Patience, assistant curator of the Museum of Liverpool, discusses how an exhibition of John Lennon’s drawings caused controversy in 1970
The Queen vs Eugene
In January 1970 the first ever exhibit of Bag One by John Lennon took place at the London Arts Gallery 22 New Bond Street. The opening was raided by the Scotland Yard Vice squad and the prints were confiscated. The gallery owner was charged with Obscenity and a trial was held the next month.
John Lennon’s ‘Bag One’ public exhibition and controversy
John Lennon’s ‘Bag One’ public exhibition and controversy London Arts Gallery came to the notice of an international public when in 1970, its then owner
Mr Schuster Sells His Etchings Just Like Soap Powder
EUGENE SCHUSTER: The cultural enrichment business is booming EUGENE SCHUSTER has made an extremely good thing out of etchings. He’s a bright young American
Erotic Lennon ‘disgusting’ – The Evening Standard
Detectives damningly dismissed John Lennon’s erotic drawings as the product of a sick mind. And members of the public who visited the London gallery exhibiting
Come Together: John Lennon’s illegal art
Confiscated in a Scotland Yard raid, John Lennon’s erotic drawings spent only a single day on display in London. Fifty years on, the explicit lithographs
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Lennon and Picasso compared at Trial
Allegedly obscene drawings by John Lennon were compared in court yesterday with a Picasso print. The print was found by police in a drawer at
Art Fears Cleared Lennon Of Obscenity
John Lennon’s graphic drawings of himself having sex may have escaped conviction for obscenity because of feared ramifications across the art world, newly-released files show.
JOHN LENNON DREAMSITE: BAG ONE
It was easy for John to talk about being receptive to new ideas but the discipline to begin projects and see them through to completion was