Editing September Morn (section)

===Acquisition by the Metropolitan Museum of Art===
''September Morn'' was purchased by the [[Philadelphia]] broker and sportsman William Coxe Wright for $22,000{{efn|${{Inflation|US|22000|1957|fmt=c}} today.{{Inflation-fn|US}}}} in 1957.{{sfn|MET, September Morn}}{{sfn|Monfried|1971|p=9}} In April of that year he offered it to the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]], but the painting was rejected for having "no relation to the stream of 20th century art".{{sfn|Beaver Valley Times 1957}} Eventually he anonymously donated the work&nbsp;– valued at an estimated $30,000{{efn|${{Inflation|US|30000|1957|fmt=c}} today.{{Inflation-fn|US}}}}&nbsp;– to the Met in New York City.{{sfn|Monfried|1971|p=9}} Speaking for the museum, Dudley T. Easby explained that, although the painting could not be classified as a masterpiece, it was nevertheless "a part of art history in view of the controversy that raged around the picture in earlier years".{{sfn|Toledo Blade 1957}}

[[File:September Morn on display in Toledo, 1958.jpg|thumb|''September Morn'' on display in the [[Toledo Museum of Art]], 1958]]
After acquisition, in September 1957 the painting was displayed near the Met's front entrance, taking a place previously occupied by the [[Pérussis Altarpiece]].{{sfn|Toledo Blade 1957}} This position of honor was held for several weeks.{{sfn|Werner|1961|p=219}} Hughes reported a "veritable pilgrimage" of visitors came to see the painting, which she considered to add a "fresh, popular appeal" to the Met which drew museum-goers who would never have come otherwise.{{sfn|Hughes|1957|p=15}} By then, the earlier scandal of the model's nudity had lessened;{{sfn|Hughes|1957|p=15}} discussing an exhibit of the painting in [[Toledo, Ohio]], Alan Schoedel of the ''Toledo Blade'' quoted a viewer as saying that 1950s America was so inundated with racy calendar art that the painting "couldn't stand the competition".{{sfn|Schoedel|1958|p=1}}

After ''September Morn'' was acquired by the Met, it was displayed at several venues, including the [[Legion of Honor (museum)|Palace of the Legion of Honor]] in [[San Francisco]] in 1958, the [[Toledo Museum of Art]] in Toledo, Ohio (also 1958), and by the Municipal Art Commission of [[Los Angeles]] in 1959.{{sfn|MET, September Morn}} Six years later it was again exhibited at Palace of the Legion of Honor, as part of an exhibition of works collected by the Wrights.{{sfn|Sterling|Salinger|1966|pp=222–223}} In 1971, the Met removed ''September Morn'' from display and placed it in storage; Walter Monfried of ''The Milwaukee Journal'' wrote that the once-racy painting was now considered "too tame and banal".{{sfn|Monfried|1971|p=9}} {{As of|September 2014}}, the Met's website lists the painting as not on display,{{sfn|MET, September Morn}} though it had been hung in the museum around 2011.{{sfn|Brauer|2011|p=139}}