SOUTHLAND : Exhibit Bars Nude Lennon Photo

A well-known photograph depicting former Beatles’ star John Lennon in the nude embracing a fully clothed Yoko Ono has been removed from an art exhibit at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center in Fullerton.

The portrait by Annie Leibovitz was pulled from the exhibit “Heroes, Heroines, Idols and Icons,” which opened Saturday, after objections from several members of the center’s board of trustees.

Complaints were reportedly raised over the photograph’s appropriateness to the show’s theme and not over the nudity.

Taken the same day Lennon was shot to death Dec. 8, 1980, the photograph shows Lennon in a fetal position, embracing a reclining Ono. His buttocks are visible in profile.