{"id":12296,"date":"2012-08-07T21:10:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T03:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=12296"},"modified":"2023-11-16T16:37:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T22:37:14","slug":"12000-sculpture-stolen-and-other-mixed-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/12000-sculpture-stolen-and-other-mixed-media\/","title":{"rendered":"$12,000 Sculpture Stolen, and other mixed media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A painting isn&#8217;t hard to walk off with: a century ago, a low-rung employee and Italian patriot famously walked out of the Louvre with the <em>Mona Lisa<\/em> beneath his coat. Walking away with a sculpture is another matter, but that&#8217;s what happened this weekend at the Park City Arts Festival.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/0frederickprescott.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"0frederickprescott\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/0frederickprescott-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkrecord.com\/ci_21237875\/thieves-rip-off-12-000-sculpture-at-arts?source=most_viewed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Park Record reports<\/a>, 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&#8217;s as likely the piece has ended up in a scrap yard as in someone&#8217;s clandestine collection.<\/p>\n<p>OTHER RECENT MIXED MEDIA<br \/>\n8\/1 Suzanne Kanatsiz &amp; Vojko Rizvanovic at Art Access<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.cityweekly.net\/utah\/article-26-16269-art-access-dual-shows.html<\/p>\n<p>8\/1 Artwork in wax, paper displayed at Union Station<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/go.standard.net\/story\/artwork-in-wax-paper-displayed-at-station<\/p>\n<p>8\/1 Photographer-turned-painter opens one-man show in Huntsville<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/go.standard.net\/story\/photographer-turned-painter-opens-one-man-show-in-huntsville<\/p>\n<p>8\/1 Park City Kimball Arts Festival features art for all ages<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865559926\/Park-City-Kimball-Arts-Festival-features-art-for-all-ages.html<\/p>\n<p>8\/2 Memorial celebration to honor artist Colleen Parker\u2019s life, work<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/davisclipper.com\/view\/full_story\/19664330\/article-Memorial-celebration-to-honor-artist%E2%80%99s-life&#8211;work?instance=secondary_stories_left_column<\/p>\n<p>8\/4 Local artists showcase their work, draw crowds at Park City&#8217;s Kimball Arts Festival<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.parkrecord.com\/ci_21237875\/thieves-rip-off-12-000-sculpture-at-arts?source=most_viewed<\/p>\n<p>8\/7 Hoffman Gallery to showcase art of the race car.<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.parkrecord.com\/ci_21257240\/hoffman-gallery-showcase-art-race-car<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A painting isn&#8217;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&#8217;s what happened this weekend at the Park City [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bytes","category-mixed_media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/0frederickprescott.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 09:54:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12296"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71653,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12296\/revisions\/71653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}