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Iowa’s Major Pollock is Saved!

by Hrag Vartanian February 22, 2011February 25, 2011

A view of visitors sitting in Eames chairs looking at the University of Iowa Museum of Art’s iconic Pollock, “Mural” (1943-44) (image via flickr.com/brixton)

Peggy Guggenheim’s gift to Iowa has been saved (for now), according to the Daily Iowan:

On Monday, Rep. Scott Raecker, R-Urbandale, the head of the Iowa House Appropriations Committee, withdrew the controversial proposal, which would have forced the University of Iowa Museum of Art to sell the $140 million painting “Mural,” by Jackson Pollock, and use the revenue to supply roughly 1,000 scholarships to art students.
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The withdrawal sends a message to the art world that Iowa is a place that still values its arts culture, said Sean O’Harrow, executive director of the UI Museum of Art.

Hrag Vartanian

Hrag Vartanian is editor-in-chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic. More by Hrag Vartanian

One reply on “Iowa’s Major Pollock is Saved!”

N Huehl says:

February 23, 2011 at 1:00 am

how much would the tax payers get by auctioning off Rep. Scott Raecker on Ebay? You do not sell off your States Heritage !

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