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Art of hiding Stolen Grandma Moses paintings mysteriously delivered to museum
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Two wooden crates that arrived unexpectedly at the Bennington
Museum were found to contain seven Grandma Moses paintings that were
stolen 14 years ago.
Where the artworks have been all this time and exactly who sent
them back and why is still a mystery.
"It was someone who honestly loved them and wanted to own them and
enjoy them," museum curator Deborah Federhen says. "If they wanted
to sell them, they would have broken them up and not kept them as a
set of seven but tried to ...
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Mystery crates yield stolen art
Chicago Sun-Times
; BENNINGTON, Vt. Two wooden crates that arrived unexpectedly at the Bennington Museum contained seven Grandma Moses paintings that were stolen 14 years ago. Where the paintings have been all this time - and who sent them back and why - remain a mystery. "It was someone who honestly loved them and
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STOLEN PAINTINGS RETURNED TO MUSEUM AFTER 14 YEARS.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; Two wooden crates that arrived unexpectedly at the Bennington Museum were found to contain seven Grandma Moses paintings that were stolen 14 years ago. Where the artworks have been all this time - and exactly who sent them back and why - are still a mystery. ``It was someone who honestly loved them
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`Curious' art of G randma Moses.(Arts And Entertainment)(Art)
The Washington Times
; ... the New York World Telegram gushed, Grandma Moses Just Paints and Makes No Fuss About It. Another wrote in the Washington Daily News, `Land Sakes,' Says Grandma Moses, 80, as Critics Rave About Her Art. A retrospective of Moses' work, a traveling exhibition ...
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Grandma Moses Paintings
Weekend Saturday (NPR)
; 00-00-0000 SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The story of how seven Grandma Moses paintings got to the Bennington Museum in Vermont will likely remain a mystery. The oil paintings were part of a bequest to the museum in 1984. But they were stolen from the donor's home shortly after her death. No one claims to
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They reap and show
Sunday News Lancaster, PA
; Unusual collections share space with Grandma Moses' artwork. By Paul Lieberman Los Angeles Times BENNINGTON, Vt. Ellen Perry Berkeley can thank Bret Chenkin for starting the chain of events that led the museum here to display some of the bars of soap she has swiped from hotels around the world.
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