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...Stillman family has not been notified of the sale, according to Luann Abrahams, Assistant Director of Administration of the Harvard University Art Museums, who said that notification is not required by current museum policy...
...response to concerns, Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., graduate of Harvard Law School in 1964 and curator of American Art at the Fogg Art Museum said, “I think that if the painting was donated last year, then it would be insensitive, but after 77 years, it’s not insensitive, but instead impractical to attempt to contact a scattered group of descendants of the initial benefactor...
...some criticize the sale on the grounds that the Fogg Museum is getting rid of an artwork of great aesthetic significance in order to increase its endowment, according to comments on internet blogs such as www.freerepublic.com...
...both Abrahams and Stebbins affirmed that the museum did not have specific replacement acquisition plans and did not yet know what it was going to do with the money...
...coming generation of comics craftsmen needn't toil in the dark, nursing an inferiority complex or a grudge. "What comics are going through is like a civil rights movement," says Spiegelman. "This museum show will help." Like Hitchcock thrillers and rock 'n' roll, comics are obeying the tidal pull of pop culture. What was once forbidden is now mainstream; what was once junk is now classic...