My youngest brother, David, whom I felt had absolutely NO interest in art has, for the past year or so, become totally intrigued and immmersed hinmself in a great hunt. He remembered the naked lady statue outside the doors of Charlie's Cafe Exceptional in Minneapolis because the nurses in his class would go down there and "Dress the Statue" in one of their student nurse uniforms. This happenned until the cafe closed and the statue "disappeared".
He decided to find it again. His quest led him to discover that this statue named SCHERZO by Harriett Whitney Frishmuth was placed at the Foshay Tower at it's grand opening in downtown Minneapolis in 1929 and remained there and eventually got to Charlie's Cafe.
The trail grew cold, then warmed up when David discovered the statue had been donated to the Ball State University Art Museum (?). As usual, David went to the "horse's mouth" and talked to the museum . They seemed very pleased to know of the statue's provenance and NOW---David is working to get the statue returned ON LOAN to the Foshay tower for it's GRAND RE-OPENING as a high-class hotel about the time of the Republican National Convention.
Good luck, Dave. Life is so much more fun when one can sweep up a lost treasure!!