Merrin Gallery, New York
Since the Stark Museum of Art focuses on 19th and 20th century Western American art, the ancient Roman mosaics seemed out of place. The Terpsichore mosaic along with their nine counterpart fragments were deaccessioned August 1, 1986, to The Edward H. Merrin Gallery located in New York, New York. The mosaics were shipped from Orange, Texas to New York on June 18, 1986. The reasoning behind this move is based purely on conjecture, since there was no curator devoted to antiquities at the Stark Museum of Art; the mosaics were deaccessioned to the Merrin Gallery. Information detailing Terpsichore’s time spent at the Merrin Gallery is virtually nonexistent. Apart from a catalogue produced by the gallery in 1986, “The Majesty of Ancient Egypt and the Classical World” that illustrates two of the Stark Museum’s mosaics, and does not feature Wheaton’s particular mosaic, there is little record of this period in the Terpsichore’s mosaic provenance.
Text Sources:
“About the Foundation,” last modified 2014, http://www.starkfoundation.org/about-the-foundation/.
Boehme, Sarah, email message to author, March 27, 2014.
Image Sources:
The Merrin Gallery.https://www.facebook.com/MerrinGallery, accessed March 16, 2014.