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Watch now: Long lost painting returns home, to be rehung after 30 plus years
The famous "Woman-Ochre" painting by Willem de Kooning returned home to the University of Arizona Museum of Art after being stolen in 1985. The painting was found in 2017 and has spent the last few years being prepped to be returned home and hung in Tucson. The painting will be exhibited among other works in a new exhibit. Pascal Albright & Rebecca Sansett / Arizona Daily Star
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After a brazen theft, UA painting to have homecoming celebrationFor Star subscribers: Nearly 37 years after a couple stole Willem de Kooning's "Woman-Ochre" from its frame on the Tucson campus, the priceless painting will be reintroduced at UA Museum of Art exhibit.
Tucson museums and art galleries have some intriguing exhibits on their walls this spring.
