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Lost Montana painting returned to UM
by NBC Montana Staff
Fra Dana’s portrait of “Clifford Breeding” was returned from conservation after being lost for over 60 years to the Montana Museum of Art and Culture on March 20, 2023. Photo: University of Montana
MISSOULA, Mont. —

A lost painting, by Montana's gifted impressionist Fra Dana, has been returned to a UM's Montana Museum of Art and Culture. The painting, Portrait of Clifford Breeding, went missing in the 1950s, and was apparently bought years ago at a yard sale in Missoula for $25.

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Montana Museum of Art and Culture Director Rafael Chacón received a phone call from someone in Kentucky, who had been going through his late father's things and came across a work of art that his father had told him years before needed to be returned to the University of Montana.

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