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Article: Museum on the mend Anniversary of art heist finds the Gardner persevering
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 18, 1991
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A year after thieves made off with 13 precious art works in the
largest art heist in history, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has
pulled itself together like an aging dowager who suffered a momentary
loss of dignity in a mugging.
A trauma that museum director Anne Hawley likens to a death in the
family has left a psychic scar on the museum staff and 13 empty
places in the collection. But, one year later, Boston's beloved
Fenway Court is resolutely rebounding in the tradition of the
redoubtable Gardner, who sometimes shocked her staid contemporaries
with her verve and flair.
Despite a $1 million reward and two showings on Fox television's
"America's Most Wanted," there has been ...