'How do you just lose a painting like that?'

Detroit Museum packed in wake of van Gogh controversy
Cheryle Van Wert said she can't fathom how a $5 million Vincent van Gogh painting could have disappeared for six years before turning up at the Detroit Institute of Arts — but she said she drove 100 miles Sunday from Saginaw to the museum to see for herself the artwork that's the subject of a federal lawsuit. "I thought it was wonderful," Van Wert said of Vincent Van Gogh's, "Liseuse De Romans" — also known as "The Novel Reader" or "The Reading Lady" ― an 1888 oil painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist master. "But how do you just lose a painting like that?  ... Read More