Virginia Wright (Q112252451)
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American art collector and museum trustee (1929-2020)
- Virginia Bloedel Wright
- Jinny Bloedel
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Virginia Wright |
American art collector and museum trustee (1929-2020) |
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1 January 1929Gregorian
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18 February 2020
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The whereabouts of the painting, ''Odalisque,'' were unknown to the Rosenbergs until last summer, when a grandchild of the couple who donated it to the museum in 1996, Virginia and Prentice Bloedel, a founder of the Canadian timber giant MacMillan Bloedel Ltd., recognized it in ''The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art'' by Hector Feliciano. The Bloedels, now deceased, had bought ''Odalisque'' in 1954 from Knoedler.Virginia Bloedel Wright, their daughter, who is a trustee of the museum, notified the Rosenbergs. They filed a legal demand for the painting last October, which was rejected by the museum on June 12. (English)