A painting isn’t hard to walk off with: a century ago, a low-rung employee and Italian patriot famously walked out of the Louvre with the Mona Lisa beneath his coat. Walking away with a sculpture is another matter, but that’s what happened this weekend at the Park City Arts Festival.

As the Park Record reports, someone hauled off a three-hundred pound steel sculpture by Santa Fe artist Frederick Prescott as it sat in the festival grounds overnight. The lion-shaped piece, in bright red and yellow, is valued at $12,000. Unfortunately, as anyone who has watched the scrappers come by on a daily basis during neighborhood cleanup periods in Salt Lake knows, it’s as likely the piece has ended up in a scrap yard as in someone’s clandestine collection.

OTHER RECENT MIXED MEDIA
8/1 Suzanne Kanatsiz & Vojko Rizvanovic at Art Access
http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/article-26-16269-art-access-dual-shows.html

8/1 Artwork in wax, paper displayed at Union Station
http://go.standard.net/story/artwork-in-wax-paper-displayed-at-station

8/1 Photographer-turned-painter opens one-man show in Huntsville
http://go.standard.net/story/photographer-turned-painter-opens-one-man-show-in-huntsville

8/1 Park City Kimball Arts Festival features art for all ages
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865559926/Park-City-Kimball-Arts-Festival-features-art-for-all-ages.html

8/2 Memorial celebration to honor artist Colleen Parker’s life, work
http://davisclipper.com/view/full_story/19664330/article-Memorial-celebration-to-honor-artist%E2%80%99s-life–work?instance=secondary_stories_left_column

8/4 Local artists showcase their work, draw crowds at Park City’s Kimball Arts Festival
http://www.parkrecord.com/ci_21237875/thieves-rip-off-12-000-sculpture-at-arts?source=most_viewed

8/7 Hoffman Gallery to showcase art of the race car.
http://www.parkrecord.com/ci_21257240/hoffman-gallery-showcase-art-race-car

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