Same old, Same old.
Posted on 01/31/2012 4:25:43 PM PST by Utah Binger
SALT LAKE CITY — A Minerva Teichert painting known as "The Law on the Plates of Brass" is at the heart of a legal dispute pitting a downtown art gallery against the painting's one-time owner, and the LDS Church .
Thomas Alder, owner of Williams Fine Art Gallery, contends two unnamed representatives from the Church History Museum showed up with paperwork to "borrow" the painting from his business and never returned it. Instead, his lawsuit alleges the painting's owner breached their consignment contract and sold the painting to a member of the museum's acquisition committee without Alder's knowledge.
A Dec. 19, 2011, posting by mormonartconservation.org says the piece "found its way into the collection of the Church History Museum."
LDS Church spokesman Scott Trotter said he had not seen the lawsuit and declined to comment.
The suit filed Monday in 3rd District Court against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints names Kyle Powell, who owned the painting, and several of his relatives or associates as defendants. In addition, it names curators and other officials with the museum as well as two "John Does" as defendants.
Alder, owner of the gallery at 200 E. South Temple, brought the suit after he entered into negotiations with Powell to sell the painting on consignment for an asking price of $350,000. The gallery's take would have been 30 percent commission, or $105,000, the suit said.
After the March 2009 business arrangement was settled on, Alder picked up the 48-by-58 inch painting from Powell in a van. The suit says it was displayed prominently at Alder's gallery, which specializes in "works (that) are highly sought after by the LDS Church, and its members, for placement in buildings such as temples and museums."
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Same old, Same old.
Ping
Seems pretty underhanded.
Hope the guys wins his suit.
Are you in trouble again? *tease*
I’m going to watch this with great interest.
Me too.
Those weasles can’t keep their grubby little paws off of anything. One more reason not to let them have any more power.
I am so disgusted by Florida that I’m gonna log pretty soon and go play a violent video game.
Vodka here.
fallout new vegas for me
A mormon scam in Salt Lake? I am shocked. Shocked I tell you.
I haven’t played that one yet, is it any good?
its kind of Reto future meets post nuclear war,set in the south west US 300 years after a China vs US WWIII scenario
Keep us informed!
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