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Article: MAN ACCUSED OF STEALING GRANDMA MOSES' ART LOUDONVILLE NATIVE CHARGED WITH TAKING TWO PAINTINGS FROM BENNINGTON MUSEUM.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- February 4, 1995
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Byline: JOE MAHONEY Staff writer
ALBANY Grandma Moses must be weeping.
Tens of thousands of people have marveled at the folksy and beautiful truth that is told in the paintings of the spry and busy artist who was born in Eagle Bridge, Rensselaer County, in 1860.
But two of those artworks will never be displayed again for the public, having been lost for eternity after they were stolen off a wall at the Bennington Museum and ultimately ripped to shreds and tossed in an Albany trash bin in what authorities called a senseless act of destruction.
Now sitting in Albany County jail is James P. Campanella, the man the FBI identified ...