A $10,000 reward was announced Tuesday for information leading to the recovery of the missing Well of Scribes pieces, which once welcomed patrons at the L.A. Central Library.
,” which covers the moment, in 1969, when the library’s garden and west lawn were paved to make room for a parking lot. The architect Robert Alexander chained himself to a rock near the sculpture, but his protest was unsuccessful: The fountains, plantings and sculptures were removed, and somewhere along the way, the scribes vanished.An antiques dealer in Arizona read Reynolds’ article and realized he had one of the sculpture’s missing pieces. After contacting the L.A.
Photo of the Well of the Scribes sculpture, missing from L.A. Library since 1969. A piece was discovered last year.They hired a private investigator who specializes in recovering missing art. So far, he’s tracked down multiple leads, Zerega said vaguely. “We speculate there’s a good chance it’s still in the greater L.A. area.”
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