400-Year-Old Painting by Dutch Master Found in Iowa Storage Room
Otto van Veen’s “Apollo and Venus†was likely hidden away by the Des Moines Women’s Club for showing too much skin
By Jason Daley
April 5, 2018
In February 2016, Robert Warren, the executive director of Hoyt Sherman Place, a historic mansion in Des Moines, Iowa, now used as a theater and meeting space, was looking for some Civil War-era flags to celebrate President’s Day. That’s when a staff member pointed him toward a store room under the theater’s second-story balcony. There, he noticed a large painting squeezed between a table and a wall. “I didn’t think it was anything of value,†as Warren tells Mercedes Leguizamon and Brandon Griggs at CNN. “I wasn’t sure why it would’ve been in that closet.â€
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