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# Iowa's Major Pollock is Saved!
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/iowas-major-pollock-is-saved/
- Published: 2011-02-22T14:38:56.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:49:00.000Z
- Description: 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
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: News, #image-position-hidden, Iowa, Jackson Pollock, Peggy Guggenheim, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

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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*](http://www.dailyiowan.com/2011/02/22/Metro/21552.html?ref=hyperallergic.com):

> 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.