Posts Tagged ‘Art thefts and forgeries’
The Abraham Lincoln Caper: Silly Headlines
April 12, 2011
The project that’s currently keeping me out of trouble is that I’m copying an Abe Lincoln portrait, hoping to win a contest to replace one that was stolen. I’m still trying to wrap my head around it…the idea of encouraging an artist to copy another work so closely that it can take its place, even [...]
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The Abraham Lincoln Caper: A Tale of Two Lincolns
April 11, 2011
The town of Norwich, CT is sponsoring a contest: the idea is to copy the painting on the left, which was stolen from City Hall in 1994 and never seen again. Norwich cares very much [...]
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The Abraham Lincoln Caper: True Crime
April 11, 2011
This isn’t about Lincoln’s assassination. (For that, The Conspirator movie which comes out this week looks pretty good). This is about the theft of a portrait of Lincoln, painted by John Denison Crocker, which hung in City Hall in Norwich, Connecticut for almost 130 years until it was stolen in 1994. The thief cut [...]
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The Abraham Lincoln Caper: Art Heists and Civic Pride
April 10, 2011
In 1994, City Hall in Norwich, Connecticut was the scene of an art heist. A portrait of Abraham Lincoln, painted by John Denison Crocker, which had hung there for almost 130 years, was cut out of its frame and stolen, never to be publicly seen since. The City of Norwich still has a special feeling [...]
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Who the #$&% is Jackson Pollock?
January 10, 2011
In honor of Abstract Expressionist New York at MoMA right now, I saw the documentary Who the #$&% is Jackson Pollock?. It’s the story of Teri Horton, a 73-year old trucker who purchased a painting at a thrift store for $5–bargained down from $8–and then came to believe it was painted by Jackson Pollock. The [...]
