Boy Sticks Gum on Valuable Painting
A 12 year old boy stuck a piece of Wrigley’s Polar Ice Gum onto Helen Frankenthur’s “The Bay”, which is worth approximately 1.5 million dollars, at the Detroit Museum of Art.
The boy was on a field trip, and has since been suspended from Holly, his school. Representatives from the Detroit Museum say that the gum has been sucessfully removed, but there is a chemical residue stain about the size of a quarter on the bottom left side of the painting. The museum will use a solvent to repair The Bay, and then it will return to be on display.
“Even though we give very strict guidelines on proper behavior and we hold students to high standards, he is only 12 and I don’t think he understood the ramifications of what he did before it happened, but he certainly understands the severity of it now,” said Kildee, the academic director of Holly.
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on June 5th, 2006 at 4:31 am
Yh whatever