{"id":3312,"date":"2012-02-20T10:02:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T17:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/02\/berkeley-loses-22-foot-long-redwood-carving-from-the-harlem-renaissance-michael-jacksons-chimp-bubbles-involved\/"},"modified":"2012-02-28T10:08:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T17:08:09","slug":"berkeley-loses-22-foot-long-redwood-carving-from-the-harlem-renaissance-michael-jacksons-chimp-bubbles-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/20\/berkeley-loses-22-foot-long-redwood-carving-from-the-harlem-renaissance-michael-jacksons-chimp-bubbles-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"Berkeley Loses 22-foot Long Redwood Carving From The Harlem Renaissance – Michael Jackson’s Chimp Bubbles Involved"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Berkeley\u2019s Artwork Loss Is a Museum\u2019s Gain<\/h1>\n

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Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens<\/p>\n

By CAROL POGASH<\/em><\/p>\n

BERKELEY, Calif. \u2014 Everybody misplaces something sometime. But it is not easy for the University of California, Berkeley, to explain how it lost a 22-foot-long carved panel by a celebrated African-American sculptor, or how, three years ago, it mistakenly sold this work, valued at more than a million dollars, for $150 plus tax.<\/p>\n

The university\u2019s embarrassing loss eventually enabled\u00a0the Huntington Library<\/a>, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, a large museum and research center in San Marino, Calif., to acquire its first major work by an African-American artist.<\/p>\n

The circuitous tale of Sargent Johnson\u2019s huge redwood relief involves error, chance and a partnership of unlikely art-world figures, including an art and furniture dealer who stumbled upon the panels at the university\u2019s surplus store; an antiques dealer who was on a first-name basis with Michael Jackson and his chimp Bubbles; and a lawyer whose hobby is buying lighthouses and who convinced the government that even though the art was commissioned bythe Works Progress Administration<\/a>, it could still be sold publicly.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at LATimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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