Legislator Drops Plan to Force Sale of Pollock's 'Mural'

A state legislator in Iowa has stopped pushing to advance his bill to force the University of Iowa to sell one of the masterpieces of modern art, Jackson Pollock's "Mural," The Des Moines Register reported. Arts advocates condemned the plan, even though it might have raised $150 million for scholarships. In recent days, the idea has also been rejected by the state's governor and prominent donors to the university. The work was donated to Iowa by Peggy Guggenheim, the noted art collector, who had many ties to Iowa's arts faculty in the 1940s and 1950s.