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News & ArtsThursday, January 26, 2012
Visual Art Art Thieves Strike Olympia Weirdly, Elaborately
Posted by Jen Graves on Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:08 PM
- Stolen! Tribute to the Concussed Skier by Jud Turner, valued at $800.
This heist just cannot get any respect.
"This art heist unlikely to be made into a movie," was the headline in the Eugene Register-Guard. The works were for sale for only $1,400 combined. The headline on HuffPo: "Thieves Steal Art Valued At $1,400?!"
Here are pictures of the two pieces taken. The thieves went to the trouble to rappel down into the gallery through the skylight. From the HuffPo report:
"Tribute to the concussed skier" is over four feet in diameter while Williamson's "Horizons II" measures over four and a half feet. The thieves arguably could have taken smaller pieces with higher values, leading some to believe it was a matter of taste. "I have far more expensive pieces in the gallery," Jo Gallaugher said to the News Tribune. "The pieces they chose are the pieces that are most often admired by men in their 20s." (Ouch.)
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