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KEY: DR. KERMIT HUNTER
MUSEUM DIRECTORPAINTINGS
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The Virginia Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist
University in Dallas displays more than four hundred
paintings. And about 75 percent of them were donated
by millionaire oilman Algur Meadows. Meadows is
now in New York trying to determine the authenticity
of several dozen paintings from his personal collection,
the Meadows estate on Turtle Creek Boule-.
yard. The New York Times reported yesterday that 44
works in the Meadows collection were designated M
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forgeries by iEArt Dealers Association of
America. Meadows questions the association's
findings and he's conducting his own investigation to
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question.
Doctor Kermit Hunter, deaMof SMU's school of fine arts
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James Kerr that none of the IMeadows donated
to the museum were among those branded as forgeries by
the New K York group.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Paintings], item, May 10, 1967; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc989102/m1/1/: accessed March 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.