First Hill’s Frye Art Museum is reaching out to the community for help dealing with reverse art thieves who won’t stop adding new paintings to their galleries.
“If you’re doing this, I have a message for you,” pled Senior Curator Daphne Delacroix. “Enough with the paintings of ships. Enough with the Romantic American landscapes. Enough with the proto-charcuterie board still lifes. We have plenty. And for the love of god, please stop adding portraits of random aristocrats with weird noses.”
The Frye Salon’s wall-to-wall design is particularly susceptible to invasive pieces.
“We have no idea when this started,” Delacroix said. “Our collection may be chock full of freeloaders. To be honest, no one noticed until someone tried to pass a Pre-Raphaelite depiction of Calvin Pissing as one of our works. And even then it took six months before anyone had the self-confidence to question whether it was a real work of art.”
Until the reverse art thieves can be found, the Frye will be dealing with the issue by implementing a “take an art, leave an art” policy in all their galleries.
