The director of Wellesley College’s Davis Museum and Cultural Center, which acknowledged last month that a 20th-century painting worth about $3-million had gone missing, has resigned.

In an article today, The Boston Globe quoted Wellesley’s president, H. Kim Bottomly, as saying in a message to faculty and staff members that she had accepted David Mickenberg’s resignation to “pursue other opportunities.” The four-paragraph statement did not mention of the lost painting, “Woman and Child,” by the French cubist Fernand Léger. College officials declined to comment and Mr. Mickenberg did not respond to the Globe’s efforts to reach him. —Charles Huckabee