September 5, 2008

Outcry Greets Possible Sale of Pollock Painting to Pay for U. of Iowa's Flood Repairs

By KATHRYN MASTERSON

Jackson Pollock's "Mural," the wall-length jewel of the University of Iowa's art collection, sits safely in a secure, climate-controlled location in Chicago after being saved from the flooded campus earlier this summer. But the painting's long-term fate is less certain, as the possibility of selling it to pay for flood repairs is being debated in Iowa and the larger art community.

Last month, Michael G. Gartner, a member of Iowa's state Board of Regents, requested that the board's

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