30 Years After Art Heist, Museum Hopes To Get Piece Back

ASTRID GALVAN Associated Press, San Diego Union-Tribune Nation
Sat, 11/28/2015 - 3:48pm

An empty wooden frame once occupied by Willem de Kooning's "Woman-Ochre" sits at the center of a gallery at the University of Arizona's Museum of Art in Tucson.

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