University Daily Kansan, January 19, 1983
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Damaged art collection removed from leaky tin shed
Debra Bates/KANSAN
By DAVID POWLS Staff Reporter
The Wilcox Collection, a collection of Greek and Roman art, has been moved to a dry storage area, but 20 percent of the collection already had rotted away, Elizabeth Banks, curator of the collection, said yesterday.
Banks, associate professor of classics, said some workers in what was formerly the buildings and grounds department refused for 10 years to let anyone enter the leaky tin shed on West Campus that housed the collection.
Campus that housed the objection
People familiar with the collection
were unaware that it was being
damaged by moisture and rodents
The Greek statues, which once graced the rooms of old Fraser Hall, have found a temporary home in a warehouse on 19th Street and Bullene Avenue. Elizabeth Banks, associate professor of classics, said that many of the statues had suffered damage because their previous home of 18 years had a leaky roof.
"We couldn't get a key to the shed and we assumed the University didn't want us in there," she said.
because they were not allowed to enter the shed, she said.
BUT SHE said the current department of facilities operations had been helpful in allowing people familiar with the collection to enter the building to work on it. The collection includes statues, vases and photographs of Greek architecture.
Bob Weeks, a facilities operations supervisor, said the move last Wednesday to take about live and a half more days of work. He filled the storage area on 19th Street.
Last Wednesday, people in the classics department and four construction workers from facilities operations used two fork lifts and a truck to move the heaviest pieces of sculptures where they had been stored for 18 years.
The sculptures' bases were moved to a dry storage facility at 19th Street and Bullein Avenue in 1965, but the statues that had been on the bases were moved to the shed on West Campus, Banks said.
"SOME OF the plaster casts were in good shape and others were not," he said.
The classics department is reconstructing and cleaning the collection. The department hopes to display the collection in Lippincott Hall by next fall.
It was previously displayed at the University of Kansas in the old Fraser Hall from 1885 until 1965, when that building was torn down.
The collection was supposed to move into Wesco Hall but did not because building plans were reduced and no room was available.
Mary Grant, who was a professor in the classics department for 39 years and former curator of the collection, also gave $5,000 for new display cases and acquisitions.
In December, the Kansas University Endowment Association gave $25,000 to the University for moving costs and establishing a museum establishing the collection in Lippincott.
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