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when he learned that the post office was going to be sold. In a letter to the editor published in the Santa
Barbara News-Press in July 1937, Cooper proposed that the impressive Italianate structure should be transformed into a museum. After gaining momentum in town and with the support of local
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Barbara Museum of Art agreed to restitute a drawing by Egon Schiele, "Portrait of the Artist’s Wife, Edith," which had been looted by the Nazis and later donated to the museum by one of its founders, Wright Ludington. This decision followed after seventeen years of concerted
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Barbara firm Kupiec Architects. The total cost of the master plan, which involves extensive improvements for the museum’s 1914 building and the re-installation of its collection, was initially projected at $ 50 million.
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Schiele, "Portrait of the Artist’s Wife, Edith", was the object of a lawsuit filed in 2022 against the museum and an investigation by New York authorities because it was sold in the USA through
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