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August 28, 2008

College Vows Better Protection of Its Museum's Art

In the wake of reports that Wellesley College’s Davis Museum may have accidentally thrown out a valuable painting, the college’s president, H. Kim Bottomly, said new protections for the museum’s art will be in place by this fall, reports The Boston Globe.

A 1921 painting by French cubist Fernand Leger, which had been loaned to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art for an exhibit that ended in April 2007, was discovered missing after it had been returned to Wellesley. The work sat in a crate for months, and later the museum could not locate it. Museum officials say it may not have been removed from the crate before that crate was discarded.

“This issue remains a high priority for me,” Ms. Bottomly said in a statement. “The loss of this valuable and irreplaceable painting has saddened the entire community, and we still hope it will be found.”

A Wellesley art lecturer and adjunct curator of the Davis, Eleanor P. DeLorme, has asked the museum to return art pieces she donated years ago, claiming that one of the pieces has been damaged. “It’s a bad place to give any art objects to, and I want all of them back,” said Ms. DeLorme.

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