Art Lessons

Wow, talk about embarrassing. Wellesley College (Mass.) has lost a painting by French cubist Fernand Leger. The article in the Boston Globe explains the painting was sent to The Oklahoma City Museum for display while the college's Davis Museum and Cultural Center was being renovated. Sometime after being shipped back from Oklahoma the painting went missing. Of course, the piece was insured and the police have been notified, but it's still a loss to the college.

It makes one wonder whether Pamela White, interim director of the University of Iowa Museum of Art, has the urge to call Chicago and check up on all her pieces that were taken for safe keeping and restoration during the floods in June.