The Museum Hallway Forgery: How a Dehumidifier Exposed a Con Artist
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The Museum Hallway Forgery: How a Dehumidifier Exposed a Con Artist
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A gust from a portable dehumidifier nudged a gilt frame by a quarter inch and revealed a hidden corner of paper that had lived unseen for eleven years. The painting, attributed to Caleb Morse and sold for $42,000, hid a chemically impossible blue in its upper-left shadows - who built this fake and why did it go unnoticed for over a decade?
In this episode, we tell how a museum hallway artwork purchased in 2009 was quietly unmasked in August 2020, follow the chain of professionals called in that day, and trace the physical clues that suggested the work was constructed rather than restored - could a sham framing company and a peculiar primer expose a larger fraud?
Person: Caleb Morse
Date: Purchased summer 2009
Location: Fenwick Regional Museum hallway
Event: Discovery prompted by dehumidifier in third week of August 2020
Status: Painting flagged as suspicious after material analysis
- The painting hung in a hallway between the front desk and restrooms for eleven years.
- The acquisition price recorded by the museum was $42,000.
- The paper found between the backing board and stretcher was a duplicate carbon receipt dated June 2009.
- The receipt listed materials: linen canvas, rabbit-skin glue, lead white primer, and two sable brushes.
- The framing company on the receipt, Hartwell Restoration Services, had no business license, no tax filings, and a closed P.O. box by 2011.
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