The Chrysler Museum in Norfolk has agreed to return a historic sculpture called “The Wounded Indian” to a Massachusetts organization that had owned it but believed the work had been destroyed in the 1950s, according to lawyers for the Massachusetts group.
The Chrysler Museum in Norfolk has agreed to return a historic sculpture called “The Wounded Indian” to a Massachusetts organization that had owned it but believed the work had been destroyed in the 1950s.The agreement, signed Wednesday morning, resolves a decades-long effort by the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association to be recognized as the rightful owner of the once-missing statue.
It turned out that the Norfolk museum’s benefactor, Walter P. Chrysler Jr., had obtained the statue from an eccentric collector named James Ricau. After the MCMA surfaced with its claims, the museum defended its ownership but quietly began trying to track down how the late Ricau had obtained it. But when the MCMA requested $200,000 to help cover legal fees and other expenses, the Chrysler balked.
Greg Werkheiser, a lawyer for the MCMA, said the statue — which is still being exhibited in Norfolk — could be back in Boston in the next couple of weeks.
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