Posted on 02/07/2015 8:17:26 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Police discover valuable Momaday art in condemned apartment
Art showed up in a surprising place last week, when a police officer discovered more than $33,000 worth of prints by renowned artist Al Momaday in a condemned property in the Northeast Heights.
According to the incident report, an Albuquerque police officer accompanied city officials who were boarding up an apartment known to him as a site for stashing stolen property. He spotted a portfolio box on the floor containing 72 prints by Momaday, a Native American artist from the Kiowa tribe in Oklahoma.
The artist lived on the Jemez Pueblo for many years and died in 1981.
Tanner Tixier, a spokesman for APD, said that while police don’t know for sure the artwork was stolen, the location where the prints were found is suspicious. The apartment near Juan Tabo and Indian School is a former methamphetamine lab and was condemned by the city more than two years ago, according to the report.
“That’s why we’re working with the museum,” Tixier said. “The house where it was found would not be conducive to the type of environment where you’d find $30,000 worth of art.”
The officer brought the box to the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History for assistance.
“He just felt it would be safer to have them come to the museum, and maybe we’d be able to provide some clues,” said Andrew Connors, the curator of art at the museum. “Generally we don’t get involved in investigations of stolen art, but in this case it’s kind of an odd set of prints.”
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Another recovered piece of artwork ...
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“art”
At least it didn’t involve SWAT, or dead people this time. Did you see about the woman shot dead by her stalker in Friday’s parking lot, Cottonwood?
$450 per “art” piece? Who gets to decide something is art?
The material is contaminated. It should have been properly disposed by approved methods.
We live near Cottonwood mall. Not terribly close but close enough. That was a terrible thing to happen to that woman at TGI Fridays. Pretty bizarre considering they had just had dinner together.
ART WORK? I CALL IT CRAP! Jerome Tiger and Brummett Echohawk did better paintings down in Oklahoma!
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