Museum Director Sells His Own Gallery's Painting: The Dusk at Forty Feet Case
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Museum Director Sells His Own Gallery's Painting: The Dusk at Forty Feet Case
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Fear that the person guarding a museum could be the one stealing from it - a wooden frame labeled with the Millhaven Institute of Art showed up in a septic-yard while the $94,000 painting it belonged to was simultaneously on the museum wall; how did one canvas become two photographs ten months apart, and who profited? What single procedural question finally unraveled the scheme?
In this episode, we lay out the timeline from a routine septic pump-out discovery through the investigation led by an art-history-trained state investigator, and follow the paper trail that tied museum administration, deaccession records, and banked payments to the director himself. Could institutional paperwork and a forgotten frame reveal a deliberate internal theft?
Person: Randy Burke
Date (discovery): February 11, 2019
Work: Dusk at Forty Feet
Value: $94,000
Investigator: Linda Griffin
- The wooden frame with the Millhaven Institute of Art accession label was found leaning against a garage back wall during a septic pump-out on February 11, 2019.
- The Institute’s two thousand eighteen appraisal valued Dusk at Forty Feet at $94,000.
- Randy Burke had run the Millhaven Institute of Art for eleven years and was fifty-three when the investigation opened.
- Between 2016 and 2018, $68,000 passed through a consulting LLC registered under the director’s wife's maiden name, and the LLC dissolved in 2018.
- Two insurance photographs taken ten months apart (March 2017 and January 2018) showed canvases with different weaves both attributed to the same accessioned painting.
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