Arizona museum exhibit marks end to de Kooning painting saga

UA Museum of Art staff Nathan Saxton, Exhibitions Specialist, and Kristen Schmidt, Registrar, prepare the recovered de Kooning painting for inspection. Photo Credit: Bob Demers, University of Arizona. Copyright 2022 Arizona Board of Regents.
UA Museum of Art staff Nathan Saxton, Exhibitions Specialist, and Kristen Schmidt, Registrar, prepare the recovered de Kooning painting for inspection. Photo Credit: Bob Demers, University of Arizona. Copyright 2022 Arizona Board of Regents.

PHOENIX (AP) – After a Willem de Kooning painting worth millions was brazenly stolen in 1985 from an Arizona museum, the staff clung to the hope that it would turn up one day. But nobody could have predicted Woman-Ochre would find its way back through the kindness of strangers in a neighboring state.

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