San Angelo Police Need Your Help to Identify Art Theft Suspect

The San Angelo Police Department is seeking the public’s help in identifying the man featured in these photos.

courtesySAPD

On December 30, 2016, the man stole a painting from the 4th floor of San Angelo City Hall, 72 West College Avenue. The painting is valued at approximately $9,000.00

The man appears to be Caucasian, over 60, with salt-and-pepper hair. He was wearing a black western hat, brown jacket, light-colored long-sleeve shirt, blue jeans, and dark boots.

After removing the painting, the man exited City Hall with the painting concealed in his jacket, walked across the street, and left in a dark-colored older model pickup.

If you have information about the suspect’s identity or whereabouts, call Detective Noel Anderson at (325) 657-4344. To remainsuddenly pops up everywhere you look?

Photo by Lewis Morley

Long story short, I first read about Pauline Boty in this book. A few days later I was sent the new Celia Birtwell book (more on that this week) and who should pop up in the first few pages?

Photo by Michael Ward

Pauline Boty was one of the founding members of the British Pop Art movement in the early 1960’s and died trgaically young from lukaemia at 28. For many she’s a proto-feminist icon, an unusually sexually liberated woman who was struggling to be understood and have her work objectively evaluated in the days before the womens liberation movement.

My Colouring Book by Pauline Boty, 1963

Celia and some of her Heroes by Pauline Boty, 1963

Boty played with the notion of femininity and