Denver Art Museum removes Emma Bunker art acquisition fund from website in wake of Denver Post reporting

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The Denver Art Museum has removed from its website an Asian art acquisition fund named in honor of Emma Bunker following a Denver Post investigation into the longtime museum consultant and board member.

The Denver Art Museum has removed from its website an Asian art acquisition fund named in honor of Emma Bunker following aThe art museum last year launched the “Emma Cadwalader Bunker Asian Art Acquisition Fund” to honor the Colorado woman who spent decades helping the museum boost its collections.

But The Post’s investigation, published online Thursday, found that Bunker used her scholarship and writings to, Douglas Latchford, sell and loan artwork that had been looted from Cambodia’s ancient temples. Over the past decade, Bunker — who died last year — was referred to or mentioned in five civil and criminal cases surrounding the sale of illicit antiquities — though she was never charged or sued herself.

 

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