Andrew Wallace vividly recalls the email he received one afternoon in 2013 telling him that a sketchbook of famed Iowa artist Grant Wood was for sale at a Chicago fine arts auction house.
As the manager of collections for Davenport’s Figge Art Museum, he also serendipitously received a request from a Wood scholar that resulted in discovering a ledger listing items in the Figge’s extensive collection from Wood’s sister that included “a small sketchbook of ideas for a memorial window.”
So Wallace, a humble yet persistent man, set about to retrieve the stolen art.
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