Additional news reports stated that the chemicals used to remove the gum created
ANOTHER stain that is even larger, so now the museum is looking for something that
will remove the chemical that helped to remove the gum!
~Shonda
Shonda Brisco, MLIS
US / Technology Librarian
4200 Country Day Lane
Fort Worth Country Day School
Fort Worth, TX
817.732.7718 ext. 339
"Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible and suddenly you are doing
the impossible."
~St. Francis of Assisi
sbrisco@fwcds.org
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>>> Mary Ludwick <ludwickm@LISD.NET> 03/02/06 3:32 PM >>>
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/01/gum.art.ap/index.html
DETROIT (Reuters) - Painter Helen Frankenthaler's landmark abstract work "The Bay"
just got a little more abstract -- to the dismay of Detroit museum officials.
A 12-year-old boy visiting the Detroit Institute of Arts with his school group on
Friday stuck a wad of chewing gum on the painting, which is worth an estimated $1.5
million, the Detroit Free Press said.
The barely chewed Wrigley's Extra Polar Ice gum left a residue stain about the size
of a quarter in the lower left-hand corner of the painting, the newspaper said.
The boy was suspended from Holly Academy, a Detroit-area charter school he attends,
the newspaper reported.
Neither museum nor school officials could be immediately reached for comment.
The 1963 painting, which remains on display, is considered one of the most
important modern works in the Detroit museum's collection, the newspaper said.
Museum curators expect to be able to remove the gum residue with a solvent once
they have researched the chemicals contained in the gum, assistant contemporary art
curator Becky Hart said.
"In the scheme of things, this is upsetting, and it will make us review our
policies. But we're confident that the painting will be OK," Hart told the Free
Press.
Mary Croix Ludwick, Librarian
469-713-5950 K-5
Owen Elementary, Lewisville ISD (near Dallas, Texas)
5640 Squires, The Colony 75056
ludwickm@lisd.net (school) ludwick@swbell.net (home)
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