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'Black Admiral' Painting Found to Be a Fraud
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| May 11, 2006
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Posted on 05/18/2006 7:09:08 PM PDT by tbird5
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posted on
05/18/2006 7:09:09 PM PDT
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tbird5
To: tbird5
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posted on
05/18/2006 7:09:33 PM PDT
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tbird5
To: tbird5
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posted on
05/18/2006 7:12:06 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
(Gonna shake it, gonna break it, let's forget it better still)
To: tbird5
And I suppose that portrait of all those dogs playing poker is a fraud too?
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posted on
05/18/2006 7:24:02 PM PDT
by
Horatio Gates
(Remember the Alamo!)
To: Horatio Gates
That was a photograph, silly!
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posted on
05/18/2006 7:29:31 PM PDT
by
jigsaw
(God Bless Our Troops. Our thanks to each and every one of you!)
To: tbird5
Someone's having a good laugh.
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posted on
05/18/2006 7:31:38 PM PDT
by
gotribe
(It's not a religion.)
To: gotribe
Funny thing is, the owner had the face repainted black.
To: tbird5
To: SIDENET
Lousy effort at making the guy a black man. He looks green. First alien admiral of the Revolution?
To: stainlessbanner
Funny thing is, the owner had the face repainted black.Are you sure? That part seemed vague.
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posted on
05/18/2006 7:48:24 PM PDT
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
To: tbird5
...the fraud was probably committed sometime in the early 1970s..... Maybe it was one of J.J.'s paintings from Good Times.
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posted on
05/18/2006 8:09:12 PM PDT
by
spall
To: Mind-numbed Robot
< snip > "Hes even had the sailor restored to his faux blackness." < /snip >
from the
NYer article
To: tbird5
Reactions from NPR's listeners:
Mary Mapes: "It may be fake, but it certainly looks accurate."
Rosie O'Donnell: "It's a historical fact that both the painter and subject were gay lovers."
John Kerry: "That painting was given to me by a CIA agent in the summer of '68 while I was on a secret mission in Cambodia. I threw it over the museum fence in 1976."
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posted on
05/18/2006 8:22:04 PM PDT
by
randog
(What the...?!)
To: gotribe
To: stainlessbanner
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posted on
05/18/2006 8:47:31 PM PDT
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
To: tbird5
Was there ever an original or is this the story of a black wash?
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posted on
05/18/2006 8:49:13 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: tbird5
Fraud or not - - that painting will remain in government school textbooks forever, right next to the painting of the black, Asian, and Latino women firefighters raising the flag at Ground Zero and the missing pictures of the twelve men who walked on the moon.
To: SIDENET
Yeah, looks awful white to me as well.
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posted on
05/18/2006 9:01:18 PM PDT
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A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: randog
To: tbird5
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posted on
05/18/2006 9:07:47 PM PDT
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Porterville
(Do Not Betray The President During A Time Of War-- Unless You Are A Traitor)
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