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Article: D.C. School of Realism Influences a Work of Art; Damage to Painting Traced to Stray Bullet
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 12, 1991
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To the toll from gunfire in the District this year, add one
rather unusual victim: a painting.
The artwork was one of three by D.C. artist Joey P. Manlapaz
that were chosen for display at the Mayor's Juried Bicentennial Art
Exhibition in the fall.
On Aug. 31, the day paintings were being hung for the exhibit,
officials discovered a flaw in Manlapaz's "Around the Corner," a
rendition of a street scene on New York Avenue NW between Third and
Fourth streets.
Near a corner, in the part of the painting that depicts the sign
of a carryout restaurant, there was a neat, tack-sized hole. The
linen canvas around the hole appeared to be singed.
Manlapaz and exhibit officials were mystified about ...