Posted on 10/22/2020 12:18:20 PM PDT by Red Badger
Oct. 22 (UPI) -- A visitor to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art helped solve the mystery of a long-lost painting after recognizing a piece hanging in her neighbors' apartment.
The museum said a visitor to the "Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle" exhibition at the museum noticed the artworks resembled a painting she had seen in her neighbors' apartment, and her curiosity was piqued further when she read that five of the 30 panels examining early U.S. history were missing.
The woman spoke to her neighbors, an elderly couple who had purchased the painting at a friend's Christmas charity art auction in 1960.
The couple spoke to museum officials and found out the Lawrence painting hanging in their Upper West Side Manhattan apartment was indeed one of the missing panels.
The painting, Panel 16 of the series, rejoined the rest of the series for the first time in decades Wednesday when it was hung in the exhibition. The couple loaned the painting to the exhibition and gave permission for it to go on tour with the rest of the paintings when the exhibition at the Met ends Nov. 1.
"Last week a friend of mine went to the show and said, 'There's a blank spot on the wall and I believe that's where your painting belongs,'" one of the owners told The New York Times. "I felt I owed it both to the artist and the Met to allow them to show the painting."
The painting's rediscovery was welcomed by museum director Max Hollein.
"It is rare to make a discovery of this significance in modern art, and it is thrilling that a local visitor is responsible," Hollein said.
I agree. I am a fan of Jacob Lawrence’s work, though this piece would not be my favorite.
Bit of history and more art of the period.
http://historyarch.com/2018/03/09/shays-rebellion-a-little-revolt-with-big-repercussions/
Excellent. Thanks!
Right
Yes...it looks like commie art
>>The problem is while it may be “art” it isn’t very good. Almost childlike<<
Not “almost.”
Completely.
You could go into a 5th grade art session and frame the results and the 5th grader’s would look better.
“I guess that’s what qualifies as “art” these days. Give me the classic art, and that of the old Masters. I can’t stand abstract, pop art, realism, cubism, impressionism, contemporary, surrealism, and all forms of modern art.”
Agreed.
My favorite are landscapes from the Hudson River School.
Thank God, it was found! /s
The couple should put it up for a Christie’s auction and cash out.
wow. It’s craptacular.
Would not dinner with Jackson Pollock just consist of throwing random foot against a wall and then using a knife and fork to scrape it onto a floor tile used as a plate?
LOL!! I guess there is something to say about an artist who avoids perspective
Wow, that makes me forget all about Rembrandt and Vermeer.
I’ve seen contractor drop-cloths with better colors and creativity than any Jackson Pollock crap-fest.
Maynard Dixon, Mel Fillerup..and Milford Zornes.
I have a oil paintng by Fillerup...and some water colors by Zornes...And some prints by Dixon.
If you are interested...look up Huell Howser's interview with Zornes.
Zornes was born in OK.....moved to CA....was a prolific painter...mostly watercolor...Lived to be 100 yrs old.
I own six small paintings by him...
Why are they “allowing” the painting to be displayed. It’s not theirs to loan. They received stolen property.
Where do you come up with stolen? Lost is not stolen. The large series was broken up for individual sales by a gallery in order to make money. A record of who bought each painting was not kept. Fast forward 50 years and it is decided by a museum to put the series back together for an exhibit. Several of the paintings are now considered “lost” just because no one remembers who bought them.
I’m just not sure what angle the artist was going for.
I looked at the series. Some spectacular displays of colors, forms, and compositions.
Definitely a great artist.
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