sold by mistake<\/a> at the Bar U Ranch gift shop one month ago still has not been found.\u00a0<\/p>\nBison on the Western Range, a painting by Calgary artist Corrie Buwalda, was on display at the national historic site’s gift shop located about 40 minutes southwest of Okotoks\u00a0when it was purchased by a middle-aged man on July 8.<\/p>\n
The artwork should not have been sold as it was part of the Friends of the Bar U Historic Ranch Association’s collection.\u00a0<\/p>\n
News of the mix up has been widely shared on social media, and through several news outlets, but the identity of the person who bought the painting remains a mystery.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere has not been one peep,\u201d said Friends of the Bar U board member Lisa Rowe.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Efforts to find out the identity of the buyer through their credit card company were unsuccessful, Rowe said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause it\u2019s not a crime, it\u2019s not a theft, they won\u2019t release any information at all,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The person who bought the painting could be travelling and might not be aware that a mistake was made, Rowe said.<\/p>\n
The art shows bison grazing where the ranch buildings stand and has special meaning for volunteers.<\/p>\n
A refund is offered for its return and the painting has been added to the Art Loss Register, an international database of lost and stolen art, Rowe said.<\/p>\n
Several unfortunate circumstances lined up for the sale to take place, including a staff member who usually doesn’t work at the gift shop filling in that day.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the painting is asked to contact the association at friendsofthebaru.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volunteers at the Bar U Ranch national historic site are still looking for the person who bought a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-56894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}