Less than 12 hours after it was placed on the lawn of the Ogunquit Art Association's Barn Gallery, Mitchell Rosenzweig's steel-and-manequin "Alpine Dream" was dismantled on Tuesday, Aug. 3.

"The police department had gotten some telephone calls about the naked girl attached to the structure," said Ogunquit code enforcement officer Paul Lempicki. He said the calls came from abutters, neighbors and people driving by who were offended by the mannequin. The police department sent Lempicki to the scene. He said the mannequin did not violate town codes, but the structure itself possibly violated setbacks related to property lines.

The gallery agreed to take it down, said gallery manager Bobbie Beavers. "We called (show co-curator) Kim (Bernard), who spoke to the code enforcement guy, and they came to an agreement it would be moved.... the artists are very upset about it, because first of all it wasn't offensive."

Rosenzweig agreed with the gallery's decision when Bernard called him on Wednesday, but he's also upset. "It wasn't that I was OK with taking it down. (Kim's a friend), she called and said I could either leave the steel up or I could take it down, but the mannequin is definitely out," he said in an interview on Monday. "They didn't give me an alternative. They just said the police came."

Bernard, who is on vacation until Aug. 16, was not available for an interview.

The show, sans mannequin, but with the steel structure, plus work by 15 other sculptors, will be on display outdoors at the gallery through Oct. 3.